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Transposon mutagenesis in a hyper-invasive clinical isolate of Campylobacter jejuni reveals a number of genes with potential roles in invasion.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Apr 2010
Javed Muhammad Afzal, Grant Andrew J, Bagnall Mary C, Maskell Duncan J, Newell Diane G, Manning Georgina
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Transposon mutagenesis has been applied to a hyper-invasive clinical isolate of Campylobacter jejuni, 01/51. A random transposon mutant library was screened in an in vitro assay of invasion and 26 mutants with a significant reduction in invasion were identified. Given that the invasion potential of C. jejuni is relatively poor compared to other enteric pathogens, the use of a hyper-invasive strain was...
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