Emerging methods to study bacteriophage infection at the single-cell level

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Dang, Vinh T ^a   Sullivan, Matthew B ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital PCR; Infection strategy; Phage bacteria interaction; PhageFISH; Single cell amplified genome

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; METAGENOMICS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE;

UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 84920694495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00724     Document Type: Short Survey

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