Publication Date:
1984-11-09
Description:
Escherichia coli K-12 acquired the ability to produce a high titer of Shiga-like toxin after lysogenization by either of two different bacteriophages isolated from a highly toxinogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain that causes hemorrhagic colitis. One of these phages and another Shiga-like toxin-converting phage from an Escherichia coli O26 isolate associated with infantile diarrhea were closely related in terms of morphology, virion polypeptides, DNA restriction fragments, lysogenic immunity, and heat stability, although a difference in host range was noted. These phages are currently the best-characterized representatives from a broader family of Shiga-like toxin-converting phages.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Brien, A D -- Newland, J W -- Miller, S F -- Holmes, R K -- Smith, H W -- Formal, S B -- AI20148-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Nov 9;226(4675):694-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6387911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bacterial Toxins/*metabolism
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Bacteriophages/*metabolism
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Colitis, Ulcerative/*microbiology
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DNA, Viral/metabolism
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Diarrhea, Infantile/*microbiology
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Escherichia coli/*metabolism
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Humans
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Rabbits
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Shiga Toxins
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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