Deletion in the 190 kDa antigen gene repeat region of Rickettsia rickettsii

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-62

  Matsumoto, Mitsuru ^a,b   Tange, Yoshiki ^a   Okada, Takanori ^a   Inoue, Yasuhiro ^a   Horiuchi, Takahiko ^a   Kobayashi, Yuzuru ^a   Fujita, Shigeru ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

mutant; recombination; repetitive protein; Rickettsia ricketsii

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 0029944583     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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