Production of a unique pneumococcal capsule serotype belonging to serogroup 6

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 576-583

  Bratcher, Preston E ^a   Park, In H ^b   Hollingshead, Susan K ^a   Nahm, Moon H ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SEROTYPING;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 62249168946     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.024521-0     Document Type: Article

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