Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6715, 1999, Pages 176-180

  Alm, Richard A ^a   Ling, Lo See L ^b   Moir, Donald T ^b   King, Benjamin L ^a   Brown, Eric D ^a   Doig, Peter C ^a   Smith, Douglas R ^b   Noonan, Brian ^a   Guild, Braydon C ^b   DeJonge, Boudewijn L ^a   Carmel, Gilles ^b   Tummino, Peter J ^a   Caruso, Anthony ^b   Uria Nickelsen, Maria ^a   Mills, Debra M ^b   Ives, Cameron ^a   Gibson, Rene ^b   Merberg, David ^a   Mills, Scott D ^a   Jiang, Qin ^c   Taylor, Diane E ^c   Vovis, Gerald F ^b   Trust, Trevor J ^a   more..

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GASTRITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH ULCER;

DUODENAL ULCER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033552961     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16495     Document Type: Article

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