Salmonella typhimurium aroB mutants are attentuated in BALB/c mice

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 311-316

  Günel Özcan, Aysen ^a   Brown, Katherine A ^a   Allen, Andrew G ^a,b   Maskell, Duncan J ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aroB; Attenuation; bacterial; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031279144     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1997.0157     Document Type: Article

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