Development and use of an efficient system for random mariner transposon mutagenesis to identify novel genetic determinants of biofilm formation in the core Enterococcus faecalis genome.

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Published in Appl Environ Microbiol on April 11, 2008

Authors

Christopher J Kristich1, Vy T Nguyen, Thinh Le, Aaron M T Barnes, Suzanne Grindle, Gary M Dunny

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.

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