A Francisella tularensis Pathogenicity Island Required for Intramacrophage Growth
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A Francisella tularensis pathogenicity island required for intramacrophage growth.
Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes the highly infectious zoonotic disease tularemia. We have discovered a ca. 30-kb pathogenicity island of F. tularensis (FPI) that includes four large open reading frames (ORFs) of 2.5 to 3.9 kb and 13 ORFs of 1.5 kb or smaller. Previously, two small genes located near the center of the FPI were shown to be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.19.6430-6436.2004