Electrotransformation and Expression of Bacterial Genes Encoding Hygromycin Phosphotransferase and β-Galactosidase in the Pathogenic Fungus Histoplasma capsulatum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1697-1707

  Woods, Jon P ^a,b   Heinecke, Elizabeth L ^a   Goldman, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYGROMYCIN B KINASE; HYGROMYCIN-B KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ELECTROPORATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOPLASMA; LACTOSE OPERON; PLASMID;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPORATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTOPLASMA; LAC OPERON; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032038703     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1697-1707.1998     Document Type: Article

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