Pathogenicity islands and phage conversion: Evolutionary aspects of bacterial pathogenesis

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 519-527

  Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a   Reidl, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenicity; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Pathogenicity islands; Phages; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; BACTERIUM; DNA TRANSFER; GENE TRANSFER; PATHOGEN;

EID: 0033781192     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1438-4221(00)80017-X     Document Type: Short Survey

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