Newly identified bacteriophages carrying the stx2g Shiga toxin gene isolated from Escherichia coli strains in polluted waters

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-135

  García Aljaro, Cristina ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a   Blanch, Anicet R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Escherichia coli; Shiga toxin; STEC; stx2g; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SHIGA TOXIN; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ISOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SAMPLING; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA SONNEI; STX 2 G GENE; VIRUS CAPSID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTION;

COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIRION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE 933W; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIRIDAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 33645467485     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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