Studies of the efficacy of enterocoliticin, a phage-tail like bacteriocin, as antimicrobial agent against Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O3 in a cell culture system and in mice

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 171-179

  Damasko, C ^a   Konietzny, A ^a   Kaspar, H ^a,b   Appel, B ^a   Dersch, P ^a   Strauch, E ^a,c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Bundesinstitut für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit ^*  (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DUODENUM; FEMALE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH; SWINE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIOCINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELLS, CULTURED; DUODENUM; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STOMACH; SWINE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 22344454334     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2005.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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