Isolation and identification of a new tetrodotoxin-producing bacterial species, Raoultella terrigena, from Hong Kong marine puffer fish Takifugu niphobles

Marine Drugs

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2384-2396

  Yu, Vincent Chung Him ^a   Yu, Peter Hoi Fu ^a   Ho, Kin Chung ^b   Lee, Fred Wang Fat ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Raoultella terrigena; Takifugu niphobles; Tetrodotoxin; TTX producing bacteria

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 23S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HONG KONG; INTESTINE; INTOXICATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PUFFER FISH; RAOULTELLA TERRIGENA;

EID: 82655168258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md9112384     Document Type: Article

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