A unique DNA sequence of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli enterotoxin encoded by chromosomal DNA

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-245

  Imamura, Seiji ^a   Kido, Nobuo ^b   Kato, Michio ^a   Kawase, Hidetsugu ^a   Miyama, Akio ^a   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nagoya University   (Japan)

Author keywords

chromosomal DNA; Escherichia coli; heat labile enterotoxin; plasmid

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031024430     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00483-1     Document Type: Article

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