Analysis of a gene cluster of Enterococcus faecalis involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 815-823

  Xu, Yi ^a,b   Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Qin, Xiang ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a   Weinstock, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PERITONITIS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033969554     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.815-823.2000     Document Type: Article

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