Role of bacteriophage-encoded exotoxins in the evolution of bacterial pathogens

Future Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1461-1473

  Casas, Veronica ^a   Maloy, Stanley ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotoxin; Horizontal gene transfer; Lysogeny; Metagenomics; Pathogenesis; Phage; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BOTULINUM TOXIN B; BOTULINUM TOXIN E; BOTULINUM TOXIN F; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA POLYMERASE; EXFOLIATIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BOTULISM; CHOLERA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; COLIPHAGE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DIPHTHERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; HUMAN; LYSOGENIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCARLET FEVER; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EXOTOXINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; LYSOGENY;

EID: 82455175458     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.124     Document Type: Review

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