Free Shiga toxin 1-encoding bacteriophages are less prevalent than Shiga toxin 2 phages in extraintestinal environments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4790-4801

  Grau Leal, Ferran ^a   Quirós, Pablo ^a   Martínez Castillo, Alexandre ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SEWAGE; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SEWAGE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FECES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84949197056     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13053     Document Type: Article

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