A variable genetic island specific for Neisseria gonorrhoeae is involved in providing DNA for natural transformation and is found more often in disseminated infection isolates

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 263-277

  Dillard, J P ^a   Seifert, H S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOTOXIN; F FACTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034943923     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02520.x     Document Type: Article

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