Construction of the temperature-sensitive vectors pLUCH80 and pLUCH88 for delivery of Tn917::NotI/SmaI and use of these vectors to derive a circular map of Listeria monocytogenes scott A, a serotype 4b isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3480-3487

  He, Wen ^a   Luchansky, John B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0030772054     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.9.3480-3487.1997     Document Type: Article

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