Conjugal transfer of a virulence plasmid in the opportunistic intracellular actinomycete Rhodococcus equi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6790-6801

  Tripathi, V N ^a   Harding, W C ^a   Willingham Lane, J M ^a   Hondalus, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL CONTACT; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MACROPHAGES; PLASMIDS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EQUIDAE; MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84870668693     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01210-12     Document Type: Article

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