Bacteriophage contamination: Is there a simple method to reduce its deleterious effects in laboratory cultures and biotechnological factories?

Journal of Applied Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-120

  Łos, Marcin ^a   Czyz, Agata ^b   Sell, Eugenia ^c   Wȩgrzyn, Alicja ^b   Neubauer, Peter ^d   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages and T4; Escherichia coli cultures; Lysogenization; Phage development; Prophage induction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYGIENE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LABORATORY; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; REVIEW; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

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

EID: 17144461521     PISSN: 12341983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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