Nucleotide sequence analysis of hypervariable junctions of Haemophilus influenzae pilus gene clusters

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6896-6902

  Read, Timothy D ^a,c   Satola, Sarah W ^a   Farley, Monica M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE CLUSTER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0034441193     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6896-6902.2000     Document Type: Article

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