Transcellular passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae involves pilus phase variation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 469-473

  Ilver, Dag ^a,b   Källström, Helena ^a   Normark, Staffan ^a   Jonsson, Ann Beth ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 2642714115     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.2.469-473.1998     Document Type: Article

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