Genetic characterization of a Chlamydophila pneumoniae isolate from an african frog and comparison to currently accepted biovars

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-66

  Hotzel, Helmut ^a   Grossmann, Ernst ^a   Mutschmann, Frank ^b   Sachse, Konrad ^a,c  

^a Fed Inst Hlth Protect CVM   (Germany)

^b Exomed Inst V   (Germany)

^c Bundesinstitut Gesundheitlichen V   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Chlamydophila pneumoniae; groESL; Intergenic spacer region; Nucleotide sequence analysis; ompA; ompB

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; EQUIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0035041001     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0723-2020-00016     Document Type: Article

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