Filamentous vibriophage fs2 encoding the rstC gene integrates into the same chromosomal region as cholera toxin X

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-230

  Nguyen, Dong Tu ^a   Nguyen, Binh Minh ^a   Tran, Huy Hoang ^a   Ngo, Tuan Cuong ^a   Le, Thanh Huong ^a   Nguyen, Hoai Thu ^a   Albert, M John ^b   Iwami, Mamoru ^c   Ehara, Masahiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Filamentous phage fs2; rstC; Site specific integration; Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN X; PROTEIN RSTB1; PROTEIN RSTC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ILEUM MUCOSA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIOPHAGE;

ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; ILEUM; INOVIRUS; LYSOGENY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 44949239558     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01200.x     Document Type: Article

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