Comparative analysis of the LPS biosynthetic loci of the genetic subtypes of serovar Hardjo: Leptospira interrogans subtype Hardjoprajitno and Leptospira borgpetersenii subtype Hardjobovis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 319-326

  De La Peña Moctezuma, Alejandro ^a   Bulach, Dieter M ^a   Kalambaheti, Thareerat ^a   Adler, Ben ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hardjo; Leptospira; Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis; Phylogeny; rfb Locus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 17444449727     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00333-X     Document Type: Article

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