Characterization of a sar homolog of Staphylococcus epidermidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2871-2878

  Fluckiger, Ursula ^a,b   Wolz, Christiane ^a,c   Cheung, Ambrose L ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031812587     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2871-2878.1998     Document Type: Article

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