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Shuttle mutagenesis: a mini-transposon for producing PhoA fusions with exported proteins in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

S Boyle-Vavra1, H S Seifert

  • 1Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

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|March 21, 1995
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