Compatible solutes

Gut Microbes

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-79

  Sleator, Roy D ^a,b   Hill, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Betaine; Bile; Carnitine; Compatible solutes; Listeria

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CARNITINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BILE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; SOLUTE;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 77954843826     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.1.2.10968     Document Type: Article

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