Surprising Dependence on Postsegregational Killing of Host Cells for Maintenance of the Large Virulence Plasmid of Shigella flexneri

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Bacteriology

• Publication date

  2005-04-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1128/JB.187.8.2768-2773.2005PMID 15805523PMCID PMC1070380
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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