Cloning and sequencing of the genes for Shiga toxin from Shigella dysenteriae type 1.

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Published in J Bacteriol on March 01, 1988

Authors

N A Strockbine1, M P Jackson, L M Sung, R K Holmes, A D O'Brien

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1: Department of Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799.

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