Genetic variability of Yersinia pestis isolates as predicted by PCR-based IS100 genotyping and analysis of structural genes encoding glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (glpD)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1019-1027

  Motin, Vladimir L ^a   Georgescu, Anca M ^a   Elliott, Jeffrey M ^a   Hu, Ping ^a   Worsham, Patricia L ^a   Ott, Linda L ^a   Slezak, Tomas R ^a   Sokhansanj, Bahrad A ^a   Regala, Warren M ^a   Brubaker, Robert R ^a   Garcia, Emilio ^a  

^a Biology and Biotechnology Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATASE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0036157034     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.4.1019-1027.2002     Document Type: Article

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