Characterization of the integration site of Yersinia high-pathogenicity island in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 409-414

  Schubert, Sören ^a   Rakin, Alexander ^a   Fischer, Daniela ^a   Sorsa, Johanna ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

asn t RNA; Escherichia coli; Horizontal transfer; Integrase; Pathogenicity island

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; YERSINIA;

EID: 0032821564     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00442-5     Document Type: Article

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