Pleiotropic effects of a mutation in rfaC on Escherichia coli hemolysin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2218-2224

  Bauer, Margaret E ^a,b   Welch, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0030976392     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2218-2224.1997     Document Type: Article

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