Phylogenetic relatedness among leptospiral strains belonging to same serovar recovered from patients with different clinical syndromes

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-191

  Natarajaseenivasan, K ^a   Vijayachari, P ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Roy, S ^a   Sugunan, A P ^a   Biswas, D ^a   Sehgal, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Grippotyphosa; L. interrogans; L. kirschneri; Pomona; RAPD fingerprinting; Ratnapura; Valbuzzi

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RODENT; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RATS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 11844290129     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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