A novel suicide shuttle plasmid for Streptococcus suis serotype 2 and Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus gene mutation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Rui ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a   Su, Yiqi ^a   Lin, Huixing ^a,b   Zhang, Hui ^c   Yu, Lei ^a   Ma, Zhe ^a,b   Fan, Hongjie ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CHINA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PIG; PLASMID; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUICIDE TRANSGENE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, TRANSGENIC, SUICIDE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SEROGROUP; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84973334801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27133     Document Type: Article

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