Silage collected from dairy farms harbors an abundance of listeriaphages with considerable host range and genome size diversity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8666-8675

  Vongkamjan, Kitiya ^a   Switt, Andrea Moreno ^a   den Bakker, Henk C ^a   Fortes, Esther D ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMS; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; GENOME SIZES; GENOMIC DIVERSITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; REFERENCE SET; SEROTYPES;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOCONTROL; ECOLOGY; GENES; LISTERIA; PATHOGENS; STRAIN;

FARMS;

BACTERIUM; BIOCONTROL AGENT; GENOME; HOST RANGE; SAMPLING; SILAGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; SILAGE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

BACTERIOPHAGES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HOST SPECIFICITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SEROTYPING; SILAGE; VIRAL LOAD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84870994757     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01859-12     Document Type: Article

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