Two novel myoviruses from the north of Iraq reveal insights into Clostridium difficile phage diversity and biology

Viruses

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Rashid, Srwa J ^a   Barylski, Jakub ^b   Hargreaves, Katherine R ^c   Millard, Andrew A ^d   Vinner, Gurinder K ^e   Clokie, Martha R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Clostridium difficile; CRISPR cas system; Endolysin; Genome evolution; Large terminase gene; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ENDOLYSIN; GENOMIC DNA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; IRAQ; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MYOVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; IRAQ; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRION;

EID: 84996587641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v8110310     Document Type: Article

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