Analyses of the genomes of chlamydial isolates from ruminants and pigs support the adoption of the new species Chlamydia pecorum

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 245-251

  Anderson, Ian E ^a   Baxter, Stuart I F ^a   Dunbar, Susanna ^a   Rae, Alistair G ^a   Philips, Helen L ^b   Clarkson, Michael J ^b   Herring, Alan J ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWINE; TAXONOMY;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PECORUM; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030048315     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-46-1-245     Document Type: Article

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