Identification and functional characterization of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae lbpB gene product

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 455-459

  Biswas, Gour D ^a   Anderson, James E ^a   Chen, Ching Ju ^a   Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^b   Sparling, P Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0032916855     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.1.455-459.1999     Document Type: Article

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