Rearrangements in the genomes of vibrio cholerae strains belonging to different serovars and biovars

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 858-862

  Nandi, Suvobroto ^a   Khetawat, Gopal ^a   Sengupta, Sanghamitra ^a   Majumder, Ruma ^a   Kar, Sujata ^a   Bhadra, Rupak K ^a   Roychoudhury, Susanta ^a   Das, Jyotirmoy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0030838466     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-47-3-858     Document Type: Article

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