Genetic rearrangements of the regions adjacent to genes encoding heat-labile enterotoxins (eltAB) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 352-358

  Schlör, Stefan ^a   Riedl, Sabine ^a   Blaß, Julia ^a   Reidl, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033989068     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.352-358.2000     Document Type: Article

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