Studies of aerolysin promoters from different Aeromonas spp.

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 189-196

  Ørmen, Øyvind ^a,b   Regue, Miguel Q ^a   Tomás, Juan M ^a   Granum, Per E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aerolysin; Aeromonas; Chloramphenicol acetyl transferase; Cytolytic enterotoxin; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

AEROLYSIN;

AEROMONAS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CONSTRUCT; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

AEROMONAS;

EID: 0141793629     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0882-4010(03)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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