Molecular evolution of large virulence plasmid in Shigella clones and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 6303-6309

  Lan, R ^a   Lumb, B ^a   Ryan, D ^a   Reeves, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SHIGELLA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034833128     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.10.6303-6309.2001     Document Type: Article

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