Regulation of Francisella tularensis virulence

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Dai, Shipan ^a   Mohapatra, Nrusingh P ^a   Schlesinger, Larry S ^a,b   Gunn, John S ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Francisella; Francisella pathogenicity island; Transcriptional regulators; Two component regulatory systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054735779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2010.00144     Document Type: Review

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