Characterization of Verotoxin-Encoding Phages from Escherichia coli O103:H2 Strains of Bovine and Human Origins
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Characterization of verotoxin-encoding phages from Escherichia coli O103:H2 strains of bovine and human origins.
The objectives of this study were to induce and characterize verotoxin-encoding phages from a collection of 91 verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O103:H2 strains of human and bovine origins. All the strains carried the vt1 gene, and two carried the vt2 gene as well. The phages were induced by UV irradiation and characterized by DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), genom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00723-08