The autolysin-encoding gene (lytA) of Streptococcus pneumoniae displays restricted allelic variation despite localized recombination events with genes of pneumococcal bacteriophage encoding cell wall lytic enzymes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4551-4556

  Whatmore, Adrian M ^a   Dowson, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032803541     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4551-4556.1999     Document Type: Article

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