Comparative genomics identifies the genetic islands that distinguish Neisseria meningitidis, the agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, from other Neisseria species

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 7063-7072

  Perrin, Agnès ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^b   Carbonnelle, Etienne ^a   Talibi, Driss ^c   Dessen, Philippe ^d   Nassif, Xavier ^a   Tinsley, Colin ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c EUROGENTEC S A   (Belgium)

^d Serv de Bioinformatique Infobiogen   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; GENOMICS; MENINGITIS; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036893449     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.7063-7072.2002     Document Type: Article

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