Pneumonia

New Findings Reported from M. Sabri and Co-Authors Describe Advances in Pneumonia

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 15th, 2011

2011 MAR 15 -- "Streptococcus pneumoniae causes several diseases, including pneumonia, septicemia, and meningitis. Phage Dp-1 is one of the very few isolated virulent S. pneumoniae bacteriophages, but only a partial characterization is currently available," researchers in the United States report.

"Here, we confirmed that Dp-1 belongs to the family Siphoviridae. Then, we determined its complete genomic sequence of 56,506 bp. It encodes 72 open reading frames, of which 44 have been assigned a function. We have identified putative promoters, Rho-independent terminators, and several genomic clusters. We provide evidence that Dp-1 may be using a novel DNA...

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