RS1 element of Vibrio cholerae can propagate horizontally as a filamentous phage exploiting the morphogenesis genes of CTXΦ

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 163-170

  Faruque, S M ^a   Asadulghani, ^a   Kamruzzaman, M ^a   Nandi, R K ^a   Ghosh, A N ^a   Balakrish Nair, G ^a   Mekalanos, J J ^a   Sack, D A ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; KANAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MARKER GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; RECEPTOR GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0036139098     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.1.163-170.2002     Document Type: Article

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