Emergence of recombinant strains of Helicobacter pylori during human infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-43

  Kersulyte, Dangeruta ^a   Chalkauskas, Henrikas ^b   Berg, Douglas E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032944936     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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