Morphological analysis of the sheathed flagellum of Brucella melitensis

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Table 1 Bacterial strains

Strain^a	Description	Source of reference
B. melitensis strains
16 M Nal^r	Spontaneous Nal^r strain of B. melitensis 16 M obtained from A. P. MacMillan, Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, United Kingdom	Laboratory collection
ftcR mutant	B. melitensis 16 M ΔftcR::Kan^r	[13]
fliF mutant	B. melitensis 16 M ΔfliF::Kan^r	Ferooz et al.^b
flgE mutant	B. melitensis 16 M ΔflgE::Kan^r	Ferooz et al.^b
fliC mutant	B. melitensis 16 M ΔfliC::Kan^r	Ferooz et al.^b
virB mutant	B. melitensis 16 M ΔvirB	[22]
C. crescentus strain
NA1000	syn-1000, synchronizable variant of strain CB15	[53]

^a Nal^r, nalidixic acid resistant; Kan^r, kanamycin resistant. ^b Submitted for publication.

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