Bdellovibrio as therapeutic agents: A predatory renaissance?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 669-675

  Sockett, R Elizabeth ^a   Lambert, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DNA 16S; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEINASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BDELLOVIBRIO; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BURKHOLDERIA; BURN INFECTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS KINETICS; INTESTINE FLORA; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; BURKHOLDERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEGIONELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BDELLOVIBRIO; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 4344595067     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro959     Document Type: Article

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