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Free Shiga toxin bacteriophages isolated from sewage showed diversity although the stx genes appeared conserved.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2004
Muniesa M, Serra-Moreno R, Jofre J
Abstract excerpt
Phages carrying the stx2 gene were detected in a range of sewage samples using a plaque hybridization-based method. After detection, phages were isolated and propagated with a laboratory strain of Escherichia coli as host for characterization purposes. Although it was not possible to conduct propagation or transduction experiments on most of the phages, 11 reached a sufficiently high titre for studies of host...
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