Different foreign genes incidentally integrated into the same locus of the Streptococcus suis genome

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 872-883

  Sekizaki, Tsutomu ^a   Takamatsu, Daisuke ^a,b   Osaki, Makoto ^a   Shimoji, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOME; MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 13244262636     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.3.872-883.2005     Document Type: Article

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