Phage renaissance: New hope against antibiotic resistance

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Potera, Carol ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDASE;

ACNE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FATALITY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WATER TREATMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 84873332091     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.121-a48     Document Type: Note

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