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Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 396-402

  Preston, Andrew ^a,c   Maskell, Duncan ^b   Johnson, Alan ^a,d   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LINCOMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030048930     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.2.396-402.1996     Document Type: Article

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