Virulence properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lacking the extreme-stress sigma factor AlgU (sigmaE).

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Published in Infect Immun on July 01, 1996

Authors

H Yu1, J C Boucher, N S Hibler, V Deretic

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1: Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas 78284-7758, USA.

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