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Bacteriophage influence Campylobacter jejuni types populating broiler chickens.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2007
Scott Andrew E, Timms Andrew R, Connerton Phillippa L, El-Shibiny Ayman, Connerton Ian F
Abstract excerpt
The characteristics that allow one Campylobacter jejuni genotype to succeed over another under the influence of bacteriophage predation have been examined in experimental broiler chickens following the observation that this succession appeared to occur in naturally colonized broiler chicken flocks. Examination of three C. jejuni strains from a single flock indicated that horizontal transfer of at least 112 kb of...
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