Analysis of the capsule synthesis locus, a virulence factor in group B streptococci

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 418, Issue , 1997, Pages 995-997

  Yim, Harry H ^a   Nittayarin, Aphakorn ^a   Rubens, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030819139     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_234     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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2. Maguin, E., P. Duwat, T. Hege. D. Ehrlich, and A. Gruss. 1992. A new thermosensitive plasmid for Grampositive bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 174:5633-378.
3. Paoletti, L. C., R. A. Ross and K. D. Johnson. 1996. Cell growth rate regulates expression of group B Streptococcus type III capsular polysaccharide. Infect. Immun. 64:1220-1226.