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E. coli Probiotic Carrying a Conjugative Plasmid Engineered with CRISPR-Cas9 to Control Pathogens

Objective

Goal 1: Design a probiotic commensal E. coli carrying a specific CRISPR-Cas to reduce or eliminate certain EHEC fromcattle.Goal 2: Expand this intervention approach to control Salmonella species.

Investigators
Bohach, Carolyn
Institution
University of Idaho
Start date
2017
End date
2022
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
IDA01574
Accession number
1013175
Categories
Salmonella
Escherichia coli
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