Screening for genes involved in Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilm formation using a fosmid library

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 521-524

  Stahlhut, Steen G ^a   Schroll, Casper ^a   Harmsen, Morten ^b   Struve, Carsten ^a   Krogfelt, Karen A ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

biofilm formation; Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis; library screen; random mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

EID: 77954648465     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2010.00685.x     Document Type: Article

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