A functional analysis of the Streptococcus pneumoniae genes involved in the synthesis of type 1 and type 3 capsular polysaccharides

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-88

  García, Ernesto ^a   Arrecubieta, Carlos ^a   Muñoz, Rosario ^a   Mollerach, Marta ^b   López, Rubens ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030901134     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.73     Document Type: Review

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