Analysis of the organization of multicopy linear- and circular-plasmid- carried open reading frames in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1149-1158

  Carlyon, Jason A ^a   LaVoie, Crystal ^a   Sung, Shian Ying ^a   Marconi, Richard T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0031932922     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1149-1158.1998     Document Type: Article

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