Constitutive expression of Pasteurella multocida toxin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 189-193

  Hoskins, Isobel C ^a   Lax, Alistair J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pasteurella multocida toxin; Toxin regulation; txaR

Indexed keywords

DNA; IRON; TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DELETION MUTANT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SWINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030221648     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00220-0     Document Type: Article

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