Capsule genetics in Streptococcus pneumoniae and a possible role for transposition in the generation of the type 3 locus

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-23

  Caimano, Melissa J ^a,b   Hardy, Gail G ^a   Yother, Janet ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMEASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031899844     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.11     Document Type: Article

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