A genomic island of the pathogen Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai can excise from its chromosome

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 677-683

  Bourhy, Pascale ^a   Salaün, Laurence ^a   Lajus, Aurélie ^b   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Boursaux Eude, Caroline ^a   Picardeau, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENBANK; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOMIC ISLAND; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REP GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 33846846188     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01067-06     Document Type: Article

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