Genetic Mechanisms of Bacterial Antigenic Variation

Overview

Journal Microbiol Rev

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1988 Sep 1

PMID 2903434

Citations 46

Authors

H S Seifert

M So

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