Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of enterotoxin pathogenicity islet from Bacteroides fragilis 419

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-90

  Rhie, Gi Eun ^a   Chung, Gyung Tae ^a   Lee, Yong Jin ^a   Sung, Won Keun ^a   Oh, Hee Bok ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bacteroides fragilis 419; BFT K; Enterotoxin pathogenicity islet; Nucleotide sequence; T 3

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 6744248637     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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