Genetics and genetic manipulation in Francisella tularensis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1105, Issue , 2007, Pages 67-97

  Frank, Dara W ^a   Zahrt, Thomas C ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Complementation; Francisella; Genetics; Shuttle vectors; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFPROZIL; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYGROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LIVE VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONJUGATION; ELECTROPORATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; LABORATORY TEST; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TRANSPOSON; TULAREMIA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; FRANCISELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE;

FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TULAREMIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34748901912     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1409.008     Document Type: Review

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