Development of a transposon mutagenesis system for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-26

  Harris, N Beth ^a   Feng, Zhengyu ^a   Liu, Xiaofei ^a   Cirillo, Suat L G ^a   Cirillo, Jeffrey D ^a   Barletta, Raúl G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutant library; Paratuberculosis; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE INSERTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TECHNIQUE; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033037638     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00170-6     Document Type: Article

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