DNA rearrangements in the flagellin locus of an flaA mutant of Campylobacter jejuni during colonization of chicken ceca

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 7137-7140

  Nuijten, Piet J M ^a   Van Den Berg, Anton J G ^a   Formentini, Ivan ^a   Van Der Zeijst, Bernard A M ^b,c   Jacobs, Anton A C ^a  

^a INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FLAGELLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CECUM; CHICKEN; FLAA GENE; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CECUM; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FLAGELLIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034445698     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.7137-7140.2000     Document Type: Article

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