Cloning and sequence of a region encoding a surface polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O139 and characterization of the insertion site in the chromosome of Vibrio cholerae O1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 815-826

  Comstock, Laurie E ^a,c   Johnson, Judith A ^a,b   Michalski, Jane M ^a   Morris Jr , J Glenn ^a,b   Kaper, James B ^a  

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

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0030028259     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.407928.x     Document Type: Article

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