Physical and genetic map of Enterococcus faecium ATCC19434 and demonstration of intra- and interspecific genomic diversity in enterococci

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-139

  Oana, Kozue ^a   Okimura, Yukie ^b   Kawakami, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hayashida, Nobuaki ^a   Shimosaka, Makoto ^a   Okazaki, Mitsuo ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^c   Ohnishi, Makoto ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; Genome size; Genomic comparison; Physical map; rrn operon

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; RRNA OPERON; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 0037022422     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00569-9     Document Type: Article

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