Unauthorized horizontal spread in the laboratory environment: The tactics of Lula, a temperate lambdoid bacteriophage of Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Rotman, Ella ^a   Amado, Luciana ^a   Kuzminov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS SURVIVAL; AEROSOL; COLIPHAGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGE PHI-80; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AEROSOLS; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRION;

EID: 77956194137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011106     Document Type: Article

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