Dispersal and survival of Flavobacterium psychrophilum phages in vivo in rainbow trout and in vitro under laboratory conditions: Implications for their use in phage therapy

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4853-4861

  Madsen, Lone ^a   Bertelsen, Sif K ^a,b   Dalsgaard, Inger ^a   Middelboe, Mathias ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DELIVERY METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTRAPERITONEAL INJECTIONS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FISH;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; INFECTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIOPHAGE; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINBOW TROUT; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIOPHAGES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FISH DISEASES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 84880975168     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00509-13     Document Type: Article

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