Genomic variability among enteric pathogens: The case of the mutS-rpoS intergenic region

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-6

  Kotewicz, Michael L ^a   Brown, Eric W ^a   LeClerc, J Eugene ^a   Cebula, Thomas A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

CHROMOSOME; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0037235274     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)00005-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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