Although extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) are designated by their
isolation site and grouped based on the type of host and the disease they cause, most …

Nucleotide sequence analysis, and more recently whole genome analysis, shows that
bacterial evolution has often proceeded by horizontal gene flow between different species …

Phages are valuable models or surrogates for enteric viruses because they share many
fundamental properties and features. Among these are structure, composition, morphology …

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and lyse bacteria. Interest in the ability of phages to
control bacterial populations has extended from medical applications into the fields of …

Introduction, 5 2. Direct virus detection, 6 3. Bacteriophages, 6 3.1 Somatic coliphages, 8 3.2
F< sup>+-specific bacteriophages, 9 3.3 Bacteriophages infecting Bacteroides fragilis, 14 4 …

Shiga toxins (Stx) comprise a family of potent cytotoxins that are involved in severe human
disease. Stx are mainly produced by Escherichia coli isolated from human and nonhuman …

The raw sewage that flows through sewage systems contains a complex microbial
community whose main source is the human gut microbiome, with bacteriophages being as …

To assess public health risks from environmental exposure to Extended-Spectrum β-
Lactamases (ESBL)-producing bacteria, it is necessary to have insight in the proportion of …

The idea that bacteriophage transduction plays a role in the horizontal transfer of antibiotic
resistance genes is gaining momentum. Such transduction might be vital in horizontal …

As a first step toward building a comprehensive microarray, two low density DNA
microarrays were constructed and evaluated for the accurate detection of wastewater …