Characterization of virulence plasmid diversity among Clostridium perfringens type B isolates

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 495-504

  Sayeed, Sameera ^a,b   Li, Jihong ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL TOXIN; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 73449089459     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00838-09     Document Type: Article

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