Genetic manipulation of Clostridium difficile

Current Protocols in Microbiology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL.20, 2011, Pages

  Bouillaut, Laurent ^a   McBride, Shonna M ^a   Sorg, Joseph A ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobic chamber; Clostridium difficile; Conjugation; Firmicute; Genomic DNA; Group II intron; Mutagenesis; Plasmid; RNA; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLASMID TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSPOSON; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSIBACTERIA;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79953289603     PISSN: 19348525     EISSN: 19348533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/9780471729259.mc09a02s20     Document Type: Article

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