O side chain deficiency enhances sensitivity of Escherichia coli to Shiga toxin 2-converting bacteriophages

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-19

  Iguchi, Atsushi ^a   Iyoda, Sunao ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^b   Osawa, Ro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LYSIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PATHOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; WILD TYPE;

CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYSOGENY; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; TRANSAMINASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33845722259     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0139-x     Document Type: Article

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