Genome organization and pathogenicity of Corynebacterium diphtheriae C7(-) and PW8 strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3791-3800

  Iwaki, Masaaki ^a   Komiya, Takako ^a   Yamamoto, Akihiko ^a   Ishiwa, Akiko ^a,b   Nagata, Noriyo ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^a   Takahashi, Motohide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN CHEMICAL INNOVATION INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE C7; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE PW8; DIPHTHERIA; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; SKIN;

EID: 77956634880     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00049-10     Document Type: Article

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