Naturally occurring isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoea, which display anomalous serovar properties, express PIA/PIB hybrid porins, deletions in PIB or novel PIA molecules

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-82

  Cooke, Susan J ^a,d   Jolley, Keith ^a   Ison, Catherine A ^b   Young, Hugh ^c   Heckels, John E ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gonococcal serovar; Hybrid porin protein; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Outer membrane protein; Porin protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PORIN;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PORINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032080934     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00105-0     Document Type: Article

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