Identification of a locus involved in the utilization of iron by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Chin, Ni ^a   Frey, Joachim ^b   Chang, Chao Fu ^a   Chang, Yung Fu ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae; afuABC; ApxI; Iron uptake operon

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0030587496     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00296-0     Document Type: Article

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