Identification of attenuated Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains and characterization of an orogastric infection in BALB/c mice on day 5 postinfection by signature-tagged mutagenesis.

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Published in Infect Immun on May 01, 2001

Authors

J Mecsas1, I Bilis, S Falkow

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5402, USA. joan.mecsas@tufts.edu

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