Complete and variant forms of the 'gonococcal genetic island' in Neisseria meningitidis.

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Published in Microbiology on December 01, 2005

Authors

Lori A S Snyder1, Stephen A Jarvis, Nigel J Saunders

Author Affiliations

1: Bacterial Pathogenesis and Functional Genomics Group, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.

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