Mobile genetic elements and bacterial toxinoses: The superantigen-encoding pathogenicity islands of Staphylococcus aureus

Plasmid

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-105

  Novick, Richard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; HELICASE; INTEGRASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN C; SUPERANTIGEN; TERMINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PATHOGENICITY; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANTHRAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037362854     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00157-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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