Use of signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis to identify Vibrio cholerae genes critical for colonization

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 797-805

  Chiang, Su L ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; INTESTINE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TECHNIQUE; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHOLERA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031953143     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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