Identification of a cytolethal distending toxin gene locus and features of a virulence-associated region in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1227-1237

  Mayer, Marcia P A ^a   Bueno, Lina C ^a   Hansen, Eric J ^b   Dirienzo, Joseph M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI;

EID: 0033009746     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1227-1237.1999     Document Type: Article

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