In vitro and in vivo characterization of a small-colony variant of the primary form of Photorhabdus luminescens MD (Enterobacteriaceae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3214-3219

  Hu, Kaiji ^a   Webster, John M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HETERORHABDITIS; INSECTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 0031707783     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3214-3219.1998     Document Type: Article

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