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Characteristics of a broad lytic spectrum endolysin from phage BtCS33 of Bacillus thuringiensis
1 Dec 2012
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BACKGROUND: Endolysins produced by bacteriophages lyse bacteria, and are thus considered a novel type of antimicrobial agent. Several endolysins from Bacillus phages or prophages have previously been characterized and used to target Bacillus strains that cause disease in animals and humans. B. thuringiensis phage BtCS33 is a Siphoviridae family phage and its genome has been sequenced and analyzed. In the BtCS33...
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