Two functional O-polysaccharide polymerase wzy (rfc) genes are present in the rfb gene cluster of Group E1 Salmonella enterica serovar Anatum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 235-240

  McConnell, Michael R ^a   Oakes, Kenneth R ^a   Patrick, Aaron N ^a   Mills, David M ^a,b  

^a POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic conversion; Salmonella lipopolysaccharide; Whole cell enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPING;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 0035972898     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00191-4     Document Type: Article

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