Composition, acquisition, and distribution of the Vi exopolysaccharide-encoding Salmonella enterica pathogenicity island SPI-7.

Vi capsular polysaccharide production is encoded by the viaB locus, which has a limited distribution in Salmonella enterica serovars. In S. enterica serovar Typhi, viaB is encoded on a 134-kb pathogenicity island known as SPI-7 that is located between partially duplicated tRNA(pheU) sites. Functiona...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Pickard, D, Wain, J, Baker, S, Line, A, Chohan, S, Fookes, M, Barron, A, Gaora, P, Chabalgoity, J, Thanky, N, Scholes, C, Thomson, N, Quail, M, Parkhill, J, Dougan, G
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2003