Cloning and characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:9 lipopolysaccharide O-antigen gene cluster

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 207-209

  Lübeck, Peter S ^a   Hoorfar, Jeffrey ^a   Ahrens, Peter ^a   Skurnik, Mikael ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; O ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0038807486     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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