Intraspecies diversity of Coxiella burnetii as revealed by com1 and mucZ sequence comparison

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-67

  Sekeyová, Zuzana ^a,b   Roux, Véronique ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Com1 encoding gene; Coxiella burnetii; Intraspecies diversity; MucZ encoding gene; Proteobacteria

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERO CELLS;

EID: 0032831684     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00462-0     Document Type: Article

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