tRNA gene clusters at the 3′ end of rRNA operons are specific to virulent subgroups of Streptococcus agalactiae strains, as demonstrated by molecular differential analysis at the population level

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1493-1499

  Rolland, Karine ^a   Mereghetti, Laurent ^a   Watt, Stephane ^a   Chatellier, Sonia ^a   Quentin, Roland ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

Author keywords

Molecular analysis; Neonatal meningitis; RAPD

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PRIMER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0036263752     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-5-1493     Document Type: Article

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