Propagating the missing bacteriophages: A large bacteriophage in a new class

Virology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Serwer, Philip ^a   Hayes, Shirley J ^a   Thomas, Julie A ^a   Hardies, Stephen C ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AGAROSE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA PACKAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN;

BACILLUS PHAGES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENOME, VIRAL; SEPHAROSE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 33847729054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-4-21     Document Type: Article

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