Cloning and characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa fliF, necessary for flagellar assembly and bacterial adherence to mucin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2130-2136

  Arora, Shiwani K ^a   Ritchings, Bruce W ^a   Almira, Ernesto C ^b   Lory, Stephen ^c   Ramphal, Reuben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; MUCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; FLAGELLUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029991623     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2130-2136.1996     Document Type: Article

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