The diversity within an expanded and redefined repertoire of phase-variable genes in Helicobacter pylori

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 817-830

  Salaün, Laurence ^a   Linz, Bodo ^b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^c   Saunders, Nigel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 1942441432     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26993-0     Document Type: Article

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