Conditional lethality of cell shape mutations of Salmonella typhimurium: rodA and mre mutants are lethal on solid but not in liquid medium

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 137-142

  Costa, Cristina S ^a   Antón, Dora N ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032964396     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006777     Document Type: Article

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