Shigella dysenteriae Type 1-SpecificBacteriophage from Environmental Waters inBangladesh
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Shigella dysenteriae type 1-specific bacteriophage from environmental waters in Bangladesh.
Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is the causative agent of the most severe form of bacillary dysentery, which occurs as epidemics in many developing countries. We isolated a bacteriophage from surface water samples from Bangladesh that specifically lyses strains of S. dysenteriae type 1. This phage, designated SF-9, belongs to the Podoviridae family and has a 41-kb double-stranded DNA genome. Furthe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.12.7028-7031.2003