Transformation of Rhodococcus rhodnii, a symbiont of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus, with integrative elements of the L1 mycobacteriophage

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-109

  Dotson, Ellen M ^a   Plikaytis, Bonnie ^b   Shinnick, Thomas M ^b   Durvasula, Ravi V ^c   Beard, Charles B ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Genetic transformation; Paratransgenesis; Rhodnius prolixus; Rhodococcus rhodnii

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CECROPIN A; INSECTICIDE; INTEGRASE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EPISOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODNIUS; RHODOCOCCUS RODNII; SYMBIONT; TRYPANOSOMA; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, VIRAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; PLASMIDS; RHODNIUS; RHODOCOCCUS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS RHODNII;

EID: 0037871673     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(03)00002-9     Document Type: Article

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