Campylobacter coli strains with enlarged flagellin genes isolated from river water

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 247-255

  Linton, Dennis ^a   Hurtado, Ana ^a   Lawson, Andrew J ^a   Clewley, Jonathan P ^a   Chart, Henrik ^a   Stanley, John ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; Flagellum; Molecular sequence data; RNA, bacterial; RNA, ribosomal; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RIVER WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032756453     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)80049-7     Document Type: Article

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