Common and specific characteristics of the high-pathogenicity island of Yersinia enterocolitica

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5265-5274

  Rakin, A ^a   Noelting, C ^a   Schubert, S ^a   Heesemann, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIDEROPHORE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEROTYPING; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032885014     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5265-5274.1999     Document Type: Article

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