Identification of two Shigella flexneri chromosomal loci involved in intercellular spreading

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4700-4710

  Hong, Mei ^a,b   Gleason, Yuki ^a   Wyckoff, Elizabeth E ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0031664436     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.4700-4710.1998     Document Type: Article

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