Exposure of conjugative plasmid carrying Escherichia coli biofilms to male-specific bacteriophages

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 771-775

  May, Thithiwat ^a   Tsuruta, Kenji ^a   Okabe, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

conjugation; F plasmid; f1; F +; MS2; non lytic filamentous bacteriophage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOFILM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; INHIBITOR; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOFILM; COLIPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; RNA PHAGE; VIROLOGY;

BIOFILMS; COLIPHAGES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PLASMIDS; RNA PHAGES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 79953026216     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.158     Document Type: Article

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