Identification of Corynebacterium diphtheriae gene involved in adherence to epithelial cells

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 518-521

  Kolodkina, Valentina ^a   Denisevich, Tatyana ^a   Titov, Leonid ^a  

^a Republican Research and Practical Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Adherence; Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Inverse PCR; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIP1621 GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPORATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE;

EID: 79951950064     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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