Curing both virulent mega-plasmids from bacillus anthracis wild-type strain A16 simultaneously using plasmid incompatibility

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1614-1620

  Wang, Dongshu ^a   Gao, Zhiqi ^a   Wang, Huagui ^a   Feng, Erling ^a   Zhu, Li ^a   Liu, Xiankai ^a   Wang, Hengliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Plasmid curing; Plasmid incompatibility; PXO1; PXO2

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMID INCOMPATIBILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84945303713     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1503.03083     Document Type: Article

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