Salmonella typhimurium fimbrial phase variation and FimA expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 542-545

  Clegg, Steven ^a   Hancox, Lisa S ^a   Yeh, Kuang Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; FIMBRIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030070036     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.2.542-545.1996     Document Type: Article

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