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Is coprophage biodiversity the key to suppressing multiple foodborne human pathogens?

Objective

the major goals of this project are to:1. determine how natural variation in soil microbial biodiversity affects the suppression on E. coli,2. test whether thecoprophage-mediated suppression we have recorded for E. coli also controls 3 other key pathogens.

Investigators
Jones, Stephen
Institution
Washington State University
Start date
2017
End date
2019
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
WNP06342
Accession number
1011564
Categories
Escherichia coli
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