Identification of a putative pathogenicity island in Shigella flexneri using subtractive hybridisation of the S. flexneri and Escherichia coli genomes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-264

  Walker, John C ^a   Verma, Naresh K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pathogenicity island; Shigella flexneri; Virulence gene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRIR PROTEIN, SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRULENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COSMID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIRULENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0037031140     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00836-4     Document Type: Article

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