Pathogenicity of gacA mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 181-186

  Chieda, Yuuka ^a   Iiyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Yasunaga Aoki, Chisa ^a   Lee, Jae Man ^a   Kusakabe, Takahiro ^a   Shimizu, Susumu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; gacA; Pathogenicity; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Two component system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GACA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SILKWORM; VIRULENCE;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 13844308534     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.01.032     Document Type: Article

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