High rates of recombination in otitis media isolates of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-66

  Cody, Alison J ^a   Field, Dawn ^b   Feil, Edward J ^c   Stringer, Suzanna ^d   Deadman, Mary E ^a   Tsolaki, Anthony G ^a   Gratz, Brett ^a   Bouchet, Valérie ^e   Goldstein, Richard ^e   Hood, Derek W ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e Maxwell Finland Lab Infect Dis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial population biology; Housekeeping genes; LPS biosynthetic genes; Non typeable Haemophilus influenzae; Otitis media; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINUSITIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNTHESIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 0037403514     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(02)00152-1     Document Type: Article

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