Development of a transposon mutagenesis system in the oral spirochete Treponema denticola

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6461-6464

  Yang, Yu ^a   Stewart, Philip E ^b   Shi, Xiaoguang ^a   Li, Chunhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL PROLIFERATION;

CELL DIVISIONS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; RANDOM MUTAGENESISES; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESISES;

MUTAGENESIS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE MUTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUTH CAVITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE; TRANSPOSON; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; SELECTION (GENETICS); TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 54949096586     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01424-08     Document Type: Article

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