Identification of genetic loci required for capsular expression in Vibrio vulnificus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1091-1097

  Smith, Amy B ^a,b   Siebeling, Ronald J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; INTEGRON; MORPHOTYPE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINOLOGY; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037369796     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.3.1091-1097.2003     Document Type: Article

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