The 102-kilobase pgm locus of Yersinia pestis: Sequence analysis and comparison of selected regions among different Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4851-4861

  Buchrieser, Carmen ^a   Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Frangeul, Lionel ^a   Couve, Elisabeth ^a   Billault, Alain ^b   Kunst, Frank ^a   Carniel, Elisabeth ^a   Glaser, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Ctr d'Etud du Polymorphisme Humain 27 Rue Juliette Dodu 75010   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EVOLUTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032797519     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4851-4861.1999     Document Type: Article

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