Generation of Escherichia coli O9a serotype, a subtype of E. coli O9, by transfer of the wb* gene cluster of Klebsiella O3 into E. coli via recombination

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2775-2778

  Sugiyama, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kido, Nobuo ^b   Kato, Yutaka ^a   Koide, Naoki ^a   Yoshida, Tomoaki ^a   Yokochi, Takashi ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031946778     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.10.2775-2778.1998     Document Type: Article

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