The selC-associated SHI-2 pathogenicity island of Shigella flexneri

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-83

  Moss, Jeremy E ^a,b   Cardozo, Timothy J ^a   Zychlinsky, Arturo ^a,b   Groisman, Eduardo A ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; COLICIN; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSFER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLICINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; INTEGRASES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032971083     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01449.x     Document Type: Article

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