Two pathogenicity islands in uropathogenic Escherichia coli J96: Cosmid cloning and sample sequencing

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3736-3743

  Swenson, Dana L ^a,b   Bukanov, Nick O ^b,c   Berg, Douglas E ^b   Welch, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029739331     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3736-3743.1996     Document Type: Article

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