Definition of the single integration site of the pathogenicity locus in Clostridium difficile

Gene

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 29-38

  Braun, Veit ^a   Hundsberger, Thomas ^a   Leukel, Petra ^a   Sauerborn, Markus ^a,b   Von Eichel Streiber, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial transporter; Multiplex PCR; Non toxinogenic C. difficile; Recombinant DNA; Repressor; Sequence analysis; Toxinogenic C. difficile; Virulence associated genetic element

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SODIUM EXCHANGE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030605226     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00398-8     Document Type: Article

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