Cloning and manipulation of the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis recA gene for live vaccine vector development

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 139-145

  Pogson, Catherine A ^a,b   Simmons, Cameron P ^b   Strugnell, Richard A ^b   Hodgson, Adrian L M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis; Homologous recombination; RecA; Vaccine vector

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA RECOMBINATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030246868     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00254-6     Document Type: Article

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