Genome of Mycoplasma arthritidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4000-4008

  Dybvig, Kevin ^a,b   Zuhua, Cao ^a   Lao, Ping ^a   Jordan, David S ^a   French, C Todd ^a,c   Tu, Anh Hue T ^a,d   Loraine, Ann E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

L15 PROTEIN; MAM SUPERANTIGEN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; S15 PROTEIN; S18 PROTEIN; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 51649115201     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00516-08     Document Type: Article

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