Interruption of siaD in a meningococcal carrier isolate mediated by an insertion sequence [1]

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 465-466

  Arreaza, L ^a   Alcala B ^a   Salcedo, C ^a   Vazquez J A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

CARRIER STATE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 0035106916     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.8.2.465-466.2001     Document Type: Letter

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