Genetics and phylogeny of RTX cytolysins

The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 570-577

  Frey, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088445-2/50035-4     Document Type: Chapter

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