Isolation and Characterization of Chemotaxis Mutants of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Using Allelic Exchange Mutagenesis, Flow Cytometry, and Cell Tracking

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 422, Issue , 2007, Pages 421-

  Motaleb, Md A ^a   Miller, Michael R ^a   Bakker, Richard G ^a   Li, Chunhao ^a   Charon, Nyles W ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LYME DISEASE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIROCHETE; VELOCITY; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTROPORATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETALES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPORATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 85058203355     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)22021-4     Document Type: Chapter

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