A polar flagella operon (flg) of Aeromonas hydrophila contains genes required for lateral flagella expression

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 249-259

  Altarriba, Maria ^a   Merino, Susana ^a   Gavín, Rosalina ^a   Canals, Rocío ^a   Rabaan, Ali ^b   Shaw, Jonathan G ^b   Tomás, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flg flagellar locus; Mesophilic Aeromonas; Polar and lateral flagella

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; FLAGELLUM; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALIA; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 0038300311     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0882-4010(03)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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