O antigen gene clusters of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 199-206

  Reeves, Peter R ^a   Pacinelli, Elvia ^a   Wang, Lei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; O ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0038130622     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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