The Yersinia high-pathogenicity island

International Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 161-167

  Carniel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; INTEGRASE; IRON; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SIDEROPHORE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; VIRUS DNA; YERSINIABACTIN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; YERSINIA; YERSINIOSIS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; IRON; PHENOLS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, ASN; SIDEROPHORES; THIAZOLES; VIRULENCE; VIRUS INTEGRATION; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033186494     PISSN: 11396709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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