Novel regulation in response to host-generated stresses: The merr family of regulators in pathogenic bacteria

Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology: Stress Response in Pathogenic Bacteria

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 90-114

  Kidd, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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