Vibrio anguillarum colonization of rainbow trout integument requires a DNA locus involved in exopolysaccharide transport and biosynthesis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 370-382

  Croxatto, Antony ^a   Lauritz, Johan ^a   Chen, Chang ^a,b   Milton, Debra L ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAINBOW TROUT; SKIN; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OPERON; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SKIN; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 33846170029     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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