The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Tomb, Jean-F., White, Owen, Kerlavage, Anthony R., Clayton, Rebecca A., Sutton, Granger G., Fleischmann, Robert D., Ketchum, Karen A., Klenk, Hans Peter +34 more·1997·Nature
DOI 10.1038/41483

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