Generation of a superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient mutant of Campylobacter coli: Evidence for the significance of SOD in Campylobacter survival and colonization

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2540-2546

  Purdy, Desmond ^a   Cawthraw, Sean ^b   Dickinson, Joanne H ^c   Newell, Diane G ^b   Park, Simon F ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033013295     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2540-2546.1999     Document Type: Article

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