Prevention of Gordonia and Nocardia stabilized foam formation by using bacteriophage GTE7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7864-7867

  Petrovski, Steve ^a,b   Seviour, Robert J ^a   Tillett, Daniel ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT PLANT; FOAM FORMATION; GORDONIA; LABORATORY SCALE; MODULAR STRUCTURES; NOCARDIA; RHODOCOCCUS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; FOAM; GENOME; STABILIZATION;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEWAGE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; VIRION; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 83155161228     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05692-11     Document Type: Article

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