Molecular characterization and lytic activities of Streptococcus agalactiae bacteriophages and determination of lysogenic-strain features

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4776-4785

  Domelier, Anne Sophie ^a,b   Van Der Mee Marquet, Nathalie ^a,b   Sizaret, Pierre Yves ^a   Héry Arnaud, Geneviève ^a   Lartigue, Marie Frédérique ^a,b   Mereghetti, Laurent ^a   Quentin, Roland ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LYSOGENIZATION; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATES; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; LYSOGENY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SIPHOVIRIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 67749099418     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00426-09     Document Type: Article

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