Isolation and characterization of temperate bacteriophages of Clostridium difficile

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1079-1083

  Goh, Shan ^a,c   Riley, Thomas V ^a,b   Chang, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Div of Microbiol and Infect Dis   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA; MEDICAL IMAGING; STRAIN;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIFFICILE STRAIN; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA; SUPERINFECTION;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 13544256293     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.1079-1083.2005     Document Type: Article

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