The mouse colonizing Helicobacter pylori strain SSI may lack a functional cag pathogenicity island (multiple letters)

Helicobacter

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-140

  Crabtree, Jean E ^a   Ferrero, Richard L ^b   Kusters, Johannes G ^c  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROTEIN CAG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0036246563     PISSN: 10834389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1083-4389.2002.00071.x     Document Type: Letter

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