Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9358, 2003, Pages 637-644

  Bentley, Stephen D ^a   Maiwald, Matthias ^b   Murphy, Lee D ^a   Pallen, Mark J ^c   Yeats, Corin A ^a   Dover, Lynn G ^c   Norbertczak, Halina T ^a   Besra, Gurdyal S ^c   Quail, Michael A ^a   Harris, David E ^a   Von Herbay, Axel ^d   Goble, Arlette ^a   Rutter, Simon ^a   Squares, Robert ^a   Squares, Stephen ^a   Barrell, Bart G ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Relman, David A ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LIFESTYLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 0037460735     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12597-4     Document Type: Article

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