Salmonella typhimurium cob mutants are not hyper-virulent

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Björkman, Johanna ^a,c   Rhen, Mikael ^b   Andersson, Dan I ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cob; rpoS; Salmonella typhimurium; spv; virulence; vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0342995831     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00129-2     Document Type: Article

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