The type 3 fimbrial adhesin gene (mrkD) of Klebsiella species is not conserved among all fimbriate strains.

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Published in Infect Immun on October 01, 1994

Authors

T A Schurtz1, D B Hornick, T K Korhonen, S Clegg

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1: Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.

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