Isolation, characterization and complete genome sequence of Phaxi: A phage of Escherichia coli O157 : H7

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1629-1638

  Shahrbabak, Salehe Sabouri ^a,b   Khodabandehlou, Zahra ^a   Shahverdi, Ahmad Reza ^a   Skurnik, Mikael ^c   Ackermann, Hans Wolfgang ^d   Varjosalo, Markku ^e   Yazdi, Mojtaba Tabatabaei ^a   Sepehrizadeh, Zargham ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CODON USAGE; COLIPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LATENT PERIOD; MILK; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SEWAGE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS CAPSID;

BASE COMPOSITION; COLIPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, VIRAL; IRAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOVIRIDAE; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; VIRION;

EID: 84881260687     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.063776-0     Document Type: Article

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