Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms in the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum: Linking genomic mutations to changes in bacterial virulence factors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1157-1167

  Castillo, Daniel ^a   Christiansen, Rói Hammershaimb ^a,b   Dalsgaard, Inger ^b   Madsen, Lone ^b   Middelboe, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANES; ENZYMES; FISH; GENES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CELL SURFACE PROPERTIES; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; GENETIC MODIFICATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; RESISTANCE MECHANISMS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

PATHOGENS;

BACTERIOPHAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GENOME; GERM CELL; MUTATION; PATHOGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; SALMONIDAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84921416902     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03699-14     Document Type: Article

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