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Central venous catheters (CVCs) nowadays constitute critical devices used in medical care, namely in intensive care units. However, CVCs also represent one of the indwelling medical devices with enhanced risk of nosocomial device-related infection. Catheter-related infections (CRIs) are a major cause...
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PMID: 21718230
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Stable, insoluble Langmuir monolayer films composed of Staphylococcus aureus-specific lytic bacteriophage were formed at an air-water interface and characterized. The phage monolayer was very strong, withstanding a surface pressure of ∼40 mN/m at 20 °C. The surface pressure-area (Π-A) isotherm p...
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PMID: 20843668
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The goal of this work was to provide comparative genetic characterization of the human and animal Brucella melitensis isolates from Mongolia, Russia and Azerbaijan using current molecular-genetic typing methods.
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PMID: 21786630
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Ana Maria Gonzalez,
Wendy Leadbeater,
Sonia Podvin,
Alexandra Borboa,
Michael Burg,
Ritsuko Sawada,
James Rayner,
Karen Sims,
Tetsuya Terasaki,
Conrad Johanson,
Edward Stopa,
Brian Eliceiri and
Andrew Baird
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We investigated whether ligand-mediated targeting could deliver genes to its secretory epithelium. We show here that when bacteriophages are targeted with epidermal growth factor, they acquire the ability to enter choroid epithelial cells grown in vitro as cell cultures, ex vivo as tissue explants o...
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PMID: 20732308
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We show that the Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR1/Cas system can also naturally acquire spacers from a self-replicating plasmid containing an antibiotic-resistance gene, leading to plasmid loss. Acquired spacers that match antibiotic-resistance genes provide a novel means to naturally select bacte...
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PMID: 21048762
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The aim of this study was to evaluate a fast and simple bead-based method using paramagnetic beads covered with recombinant Listeria phage endolysin-derived cell-wall-binding domain proteins specific for Listeria spp. for separation of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes fr...
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PMID: 20500083
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We show that in cyanophage S-PM2, this intron is spliced during the entire infection cycle. Furthermore, we report the widespread occurrence of psbA introns in marine metagenomic libraries, and with psbA often adjacent to a homing endonuclease (HE). Bioinformatic analysis of the intergenic region be...
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PMID: 20410936
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The development of innovative medicines and personalized biomedical approaches require the identification and implementation of new biocompatible materials produced by methodologically simple and cheap fabrication methods. The biological fabrication of materials, mostly carried out by microorganisms...
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PMID: 20674365
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Symbiosis has long been associated with saltational evolutionary change in contradistinction to gradual Darwinian evolution based on gene mutations and recombination between individuals of a species, as well as with super-organismal views of the individual in contrast to the classical one-genome: on...
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PMID: 20535601
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Quantitative assessment of multiple sources to short-term variations in recreational water quality, as indexed by faecal indicator organism (FIO) concentrations, is becoming increasingly important with adoption of modern water quality standards and catchment-based water quality management requiremen...
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PMID: 20630556
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The temperate phages PhiCD6356 and PhiCD6365 were isolated and characterised following mitomycin C induction of 43 Clostridium difficile strains. Both phages belong to the Siphoviridae family and have genome sizes of 37,664 bp for PhiCD6356 based on sequence data and approximately 50 kb for PhiCD636...
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PMID: 20438817
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Bacteria have evolved multiple mechanisms, such as biofilm formation, to thwart antibiotic action. Yet antibiotics remain the drug of choice against clinical infections. It has been documented that young biofilm of Klebsiella pneumoniae could be eradicated significantly by ciprofloxacin treatment al...
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PMID: 20711894
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Photodynamic therapy has been used to inactivate microorganisms through the use of targeted photosensitizers. Although the photoinactivation of microorganisms has already been studied under different conditions, a systematic evaluation of irradiation characteristics is still limited. The goal of thi...
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PMID: 20563346
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We report here the isolation and recombinational cloning of a large plasmid, pZL12, from endophytic Streptomyces sp. 9R-2. pZL12 comprises 90,435 bp, encoding 112 genes, 30 of which are organized in a large operon resembling bacteriophage genes. A replication locus (repA) and a conjugal transfer loc...
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PMID: 20472796
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We have comprehensively mapped a set of polymorphisms underlying multiple derived phenotypes, several of which arose independently in separate strain lineages. The genetic basis of phenotypic differences in growth rate, mucoidy, adhesion, sedimentation, phage susceptibility, and stationary-phase sur...
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PMID: 20472802
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
PDF is available here.
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
PDF is available here.
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
PDF is available here.
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We report here the gp22 structure solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.35 A resolution. We found that gp22 is a monomer in solution and possesses a significant structural similarity with lactococcal phage p2 ORF 18 N-terminal "shoulder" domain....
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PMID: 20506290
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Sequencing of plasmid pLM33 from the food isolate Listeria monocytogenes Lm1 revealed a molecule of 32,307 bp with a G+C content of 36.2%. The plasmid displays a mosaic pattern of identities common to several closely related L. monocytogenes plasmids isolated from food and clinical s...
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PMID: 20511420
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Bacteriophages are natural predators of bacteria and may mitigate Escherichia coli O157:H7 in cattle and their environment. As bacteriophages targeted to E. coli O157:H7 (phages) lose activity at low pH, protection from gastric acidity may enhance efficacy of orally administered phages. Polymer enca...
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PMID: 20615343
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The effect of cranberry juice (CJ) and cranberry proanthocyanidins (PAC) on the infectivity of human enteric virus surrogates, murine norovirus (MNV-1), feline calicivirus (FCV-F9), MS2(ssRNA) bacteriophage, and phiX-174(ssDNA) bacteriophage was studied. Viruses at high (approximately 7 log(10) PFU/...
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PMID: 20417404
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An individual-based model (IbM) for bacterial adaptation and evolution, COSMIC-Rules, has been employed to simulate interactions of virtual temperate bacteriophages (phages) and their bacterial hosts. Outcomes of infection mimic those of a phage such as lambda, which can enter either the lytic or ly...
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PMID: 20211223
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Viruses SH1 and P23-77, infecting archaeal Haloarcula species and bacterial Thermus species, respectively, were recently designated to form a novel viral lineage. In this study, the lineage is expanded to archaeal Halomicrobium and bacterial Meiothermus species by analysis of five genome-integrated...
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PMID: 20400546
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Pseudomonas chlororaphis phage 201 phi 2-1 produces a large structurally complex virion, including the products of 89 phage genes. Many of these proteins are modified by proteolysis during virion maturation. To delineate the proteolytic maturation process, 46 slices from an SDS-polyacrylamide gel we...
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PMID: 20233846
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A bacteriophage can be used as a template for assembling catalytic nanostructures for the light-driven oxidation of water molecules.
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PMID: 20448647
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We examined the therapeutic potential of phage Kpn5 in the treatment of Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055-induced burn wound infection in a mouse model. An experimental model of contact burn wound infection was established in mice employing K. pneumoniae B5055 to assess the efficacy of phage Kpn5 in vivo....
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PMID: 20519918
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The aim of the current study was to develop a novel diagnostic test for detecting porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) using phage display technology. The N gene of PRRSV isolate HH08 was cloned following reverse transcription-PCR. Sequence comparison indicated that the N gene...
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PMID: 20237096
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We review the use of viruses and the limitations of current approaches to gene therapy, followed by a more detailed analysis of transposon length and the physical properties of internal sequences, which both affect transposition efficiency. As transposon length increases, transposition decreases: th...
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PMID: 20084428
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Phage display has been extensively used to study protein-protein interactions, receptor- and antibody-binding sites, and immune responses, to modify protein properties, and to select antibodies against a wide range of different antigens. In the format most often used, a polypeptide is displayed on t...
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PMID: 20373506
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Replication of DNA is carried out by the replisome, a multiprotein complex responsible for the unwinding of parental DNA and the synthesis of DNA on each of the two DNA strands. The impressive speed and processivity with which the replisome duplicates DNA are a result of a set of tightly regulated i...
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PMID: 20462378
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Most temperate phages encode an integrase for integration and excision of the prophage. Integrases belong either to the lambda Int family of tyrosine recombinases or to a subgroup of the serine recombinases, the large serine recombinases. Integration by purified serine integrases occurs efficiently...
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PMID: 20298189
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One lytic bacteriophage was isolated from Tengchong hot spring. It's host strain Thermus sp. TC10 belonged to genus Thermus (16S rRNA gene accession number GU119889). This phage has a hexagonal head (67 nm in diameter) and an extremely long tail (837 nm in length and 10 nm in width). The optimum tem...
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PMID: 20499636
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