Comparison of O-antigen gene clusters of Escherichia coli (Shigella) sonnei and Plesiomonas shigelloides O17: Sonnei gained its current plasmid-borne O-antigen genes from P. shigelloides in a Recent event

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 6056-6061

  Shepherd, J G ^a   Wang, L ^a   Reeves, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; PLASMIDS; PLESIOMONAS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033801793     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.10.6056-6061.2000     Document Type: Article

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