Identification, cloning, and expression of the CAMP factor gene (cfa) of group A streptococci

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4725-4731

  Gase, Klaus ^a,b   Ferretti, Joseph J ^a   Primeaux, Charles ^a   Mcshan, W Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CAMP FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 0032774762     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4725-4731.1999     Document Type: Article

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