Importance of the galE gene on the virulence of Pasteurella multocida

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-316

  Fernández De Henestrosa, Antonio R ^a   Badiola, Ignacio ^b   Saco, Montserrat ^c   Perez De Rozas, Ana M ^b   Campoy, Susana ^a   Barbé, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c Unitat de Sanitat Ramadera   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attenuated mutant; galEgene; Pasteurella multocida; Virulence gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0343417067     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00347-9     Document Type: Article

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