Cloning and genetic analysis of the Vibrio vulnificus fur gene and construction of a fur mutant by in vivo marker exchange.

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Published in J Bacteriol on February 01, 1993

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C M Litwin1, S B Calderwood

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1: Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.

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