Relationships of the Escherichia coli O157, O111, and O55 O-antigen gene clusters with those of Salmonella enterica and Citrobacter freundii, which express identical O antigens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 6536-6543

  Samuel, Gabrielle ^a   Hogbin, John Paul ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 4544295723     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.19.6536-6543.2004     Document Type: Article

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