ISSa4-Based Differentiation of Streptococcus agalactiae Strains and Identification of Multiple Target Sites for ISSa4 Insertions

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1106-1109

  Dmitriev, Alexander ^a   Shen, Adong ^b   Shen, Xuzhuang ^b   Yang, Yonghong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BETA ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B'; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 1142286466     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.4.1106-1109.2004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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