Use of a novel approach, termed island probing, identifies the Shigella flexneri she pathogenicity island which encodes a homolog of the immunoglobulin A protease-like family of proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4606-4614

  Rajakumar, K ^a,c   Sasakawa, C ^b   Adler, B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUSARIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LIVE VACCINE; PROTEINASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0030817859     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4606-4614.1997     Document Type: Article

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