Escherichia coli is the predominant nonpathogenic facultative flora of the human intestine.
Some E. coli strains, however, have developed the ability to cause disease of the …

Bacteriophages (hence termed phages) are viruses that target bacteria and have long been
considered as potential future treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection …

In response to the emergence of pathogenic bacteria that cannot be treated with current
antibiotics, many researchers are revisiting the use of bacteriophages, or phages, to fight …

In this study, we determined the nucleotide sequence of the 5.4-kb SalI restriction fragment
of the recombinant plasmid pEO40-1, cloned from the large plasmid of enterohemorrhagic …

There are common themes among bacteriophage-encoded virulence factors, which include
the well-characterized bacterial toxins and proteins that alter antigenicity as well as several …

Lysogenic bacteriophages are major vehicles for the transfer of genetic information between
bacteria, including pathogenicity and/or virulence determinants. In the enteric pathogen …

The role of bacteriophages as natural vectors for some of the most potent bacterial toxins is
well recognized and includes classical type I membrane-acting superantigens, type II pore …

A virulence‐associated region in the genome of Dichelobacter nodosus has been shown to
contain an integrase gene which is highly related to the integrases of Shigella flexneri …

Of all the virulence factors that were proposed for Campylobacter jejuni and related species
to cause disease in humans, the discovery of toxin production was the most promising but …

Wolbachia are obligatory intracellular and maternally inherited bacteria, known to infect
many species of arthropod. In this study, we discovered a bacteriophage-like genetic …