Identification of a second family of high-molecular-weight adhesion proteins expressed by non-typable Haemophilus influenzae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1215-1223

  Barenkamp, Stephen J ^a   St Geme III, Joseph W ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 0029930053     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02467.x     Document Type: Article

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