A chromosomal region of Mycoplasma agalactiae containing vsp-related genes undergoes in vivo rearrangement in naturally infected animals

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 205-212

  Flitman Tene, Ravenna ^a   Levisohn, Sharon ^b   Lysnyansky, Inessa ^a   Rapoport, Eitan ^c   Yogev, David ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^c Small Ruminant Pathology   (Israel)

Author keywords

avg; Genomic rearrangement; Mycoplasma agalactiae; Mycoplasma bovis; vsp

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS;

EID: 0034668301     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00391-8     Document Type: Article

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