Isolation and characterisation of lytic bacteriophages of klebsiella pneumoniae and klebsiella oxytoca

Current Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 251-258

  Karumidze, Natia ^a,b,c   Kusradze, Ia ^a,b   Rigvava, Sophio ^a,b   Goderdzishvili, Marine ^a   Rajakumar, Kumar ^c,d   Alavidze, Zemphira ^a  

^a George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage Microbiology and Virology   (Georgia)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RIVER WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HOST RANGE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PODOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84878405492     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0264-7     Document Type: Article

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