Expression of β-lactamase in Coxiella burnetii transformants

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 303-306

  Suhan, Michelle L ^a   Thompson, Herbert A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactamase; Ampicillin resistance; Coxiella burnetii; Electrotransformation; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; COXIELLA BURNETII; CRICETINAE; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ELECTROPORATION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 0034653301     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00064-1     Document Type: Article

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