Deletion of porA by recombination between clusters of repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences in Neisseria meningitidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2928-2934

  Van Der Ende, A ^a   Hopman, C T P ^a   Dankert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VACCINATION;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0033055427     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.2928-2934.1999     Document Type: Article

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