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Strain-specific differences in Neisseria gonorrhoeae associated with the phase variable gene repertoire
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Background: There are several differences associated with the behaviour of the four main experimental Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains, FA1090, FA19, MS11, and F62. Although there is data concerning the gene complements of these strains, the reasons for the behavioural differences are currently unknown. Phase variation is a mechanism that occurs commonly within the Neisseria spp. and leads to switching of genes ON and OFF. This mechanism may provide a means for strains to express different combi...
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Microbiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Article number:
- 21
- Publication date:
- 2005-04-01
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1471-2180
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- English
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- 2008-03-14
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- P W Jordan et al
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- 2005
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© 2005 Jordan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation: Jordan, P. W., Snyder, L. A. S. & Saunders, N. J. (2005). 'Strain-specific differences in Neisseria gonorrhoeae associated with the phase variable gene repertoire', BMC Microbiology, 5: 21. [Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/5/21].
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