Diverse temperate bacteriophage carriage in Clostridium difficile 027 strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nale, Janet Y ^a   Shan, Jinyu ^a   Hickenbotham, Peter T ^a   Fawley, Warren N ^b   Wilcox, Mark H ^b,c   Clokie, Martha R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; NORFLOXACIN; CAPSID PROTEIN; MITOMYCIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSID GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHAGE TAIL LIKE PARTICLE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATE BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIBOTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; MIRIDAE; MYOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CAUDOVIRALES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORFLOXACIN; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 84862102886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037263     Document Type: Article

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