Transfer of genetic material between pathogenic and food-borne yeasts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5122-5125

  Mentel, Marek ^a,c   Špírek, Mário ^a,d   Jørck Ramberg, Dorte ^a   Piškur, Jure ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; FOOD PRODUCTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

DRUG RESISTANCE FACTORS; GENETIC MATERIALS; PATHOGENIC YEAST SPECIES; PLASMID DNA;

YEAST;

PLASMID DNA;

DNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASMID; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TORULOPSIS GLABRATA; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33746043374     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00293-06     Document Type: Article

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