In vivo transduction of an Stx-encoding phage in ruminants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5086-5088

  Cornick, Nancy A ^a   Helgerson, Amy F ^a   Mai, Volker ^b   Ritchie, Jennifer M ^c,d   Acheson, David W K ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOPHAGES; MICROBIOLOGY; STRAIN;

RUMINANTS; STX-ENCODING PHAGE; SUBTHERAPEUTIC DOSES; TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CIPROFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; KANAMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SHIGA TOXIN;

BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RUMINANT; SHEEP;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BOVIDS; COMMENSALISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; RUMINANTS; SHEEP; SHIGA TOXIN; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33746071571     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00157-06     Document Type: Article

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