Identifying and analyzing bacteriophages in human fecal samples: What could we discover?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 879-886

  Muniesa, Maite ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bacteriophages; feces; human; microbiota

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; ECOSYSTEM; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRULENCE GENE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; BACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; FECES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84906699923     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.14.47     Document Type: Article

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