Proteus mirabilis ambient-temperature fimbriae: Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the Atf gene cluster

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4390-4395

  Massad, George ^a   Fulkerson Jr , John F ^a   Watson, David C ^b   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIMBRIA; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0029819462     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.10.4390-4395.1996     Document Type: Article

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