Phage tail-like particles kill Clostridium difficile and represent an alternative to conventional antibiotics

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-103

  Sangster, William ^a   Hegarty, John P ^a   Stewart, David B ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; PHAGE TAIL LIKE PARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATIENT; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; RIBOTYPING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84919488763     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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