Bacteriophages and genetic mobilization in sewage and faecally polluted environments

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-734

  Muniesa, Maite ^a   Imamovic, Lejla ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; SEWAGE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CELL SURFACE; COLIPHAGE; DEFECATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA TRANSFER; FECES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PH; POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BACTERIA; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; SEWAGE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80054114321     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2011.00264.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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