Detection and characterization of the flagellar master operon in the four Shigella subgroups

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 3722-3726

  Al Mamun, Abu Amar M ^a   Tominaga, Akira ^a   Enomoto, Masatoshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029884412     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.13.3722-3726.1996     Document Type: Article

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