Genetic manipulation of Coxiella burnetii

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 984, Issue , 2012, Pages 249-271

  Beare, Paul A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Antibiotic selection; Complementation; Electroporation; Genetic transformation; Shuttle vector; Targeted gene inactivation; Transposon mutagenesis; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AXENIC CULTURE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; LIQUID CULTURE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

AXENIC CULTURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC VECTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANAPLASMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA; EUKARYOTA; ORIENTIA; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 84863737052     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4315-1_13     Document Type: Article

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