Identification and characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica genes induced during systemic infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6633-6642

  Gort, Amy Strohmeier ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^a,b  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL HEMISUCCINATE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034442274     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6633-6642.2000     Document Type: Article

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