Use of green fluorescent protein to tag lactic acid bacterium strains under development as live vaccine vectors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 383-391

  Geoffroy, Marie Claude ^a   Guyard, Cyril ^a   Quatannens, Brigitte ^b   Pavan, Sonia ^a   Lange, Marc ^a   Mercenier, Annick ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIVE VACCINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 0033987529     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.383-391.2000     Document Type: Article

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