A single-step transconjugation system for the introduction of unmarked deletions into Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 7 using a sucrose sensitivity marker

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-160

  Oswald, Winfried ^a   Tonpitak, Walaiporn ^a   Ohrt, Gisela ^a   Gerlach, Gerald F ^a  

^a Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Tierseuchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae; Counterselection; sacB gene

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INDICATOR; KANAMYCIN; PLASMID DNA; SUCROSE; UREASE;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROTYPING; SUCROSE; SWINE; UREASE;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE SEROVAR 7; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 0032869427     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00406-1     Document Type: Article

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