The aerobactin iron transport system genes in Shigella flexneri are present within a pathogenicity island

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-73

  Vokes, Steven A ^a   Reeves, Stephanie A ^a   Torres, Alfredo G ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; COLICIN; HYDROXAMIC ACID; SIDEROPHORE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLICINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; IRON; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033046336     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01448.x     Document Type: Article

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