Comparisons between colony phase variation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090 and pilus, pilin, and S-pilin expression

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1918-1927

  Long, Cynthia D ^a   Madraswala, Rashida N ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0031948650     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.5.1918-1927.1998     Document Type: Article

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