Phage conversion of exfoliative toxin A production in Staphylococcus aureus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 694-705

  Yamaguchi, Takayuki ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Takami, Hideto ^c   Nakasone, Kaoru ^c   Ohnishi, Makoto ^b   Nakayama, Keisuke ^b   Yamada, Sakuo ^d   Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Sugai, Motoyuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXFOLIATIN; EXFOLIATIN A; EXFOLIATIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033636181     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02169.x     Document Type: Article

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