Escherichia coli O157:H7 Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages: Integrations, excisions, truncations, and evolutionary implications

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3596-3605

  Shaikh, Nurmohammad ^a   Tarr, Phillip I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; SHIGA TOXIN; SORBITOL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FERMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOSFOMYCIN; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VIRULENCE; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0037608958     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.12.3596-3605.2003     Document Type: Article

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