Characterization of encapsulated and noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae and determination of phylogenetic relationships by multilocus sequence typing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1623-1636

  Meats, Emma ^a   Feil, Edward J ^b   Stringer, Suzanna ^c   Cody, Alison J ^d   Goldstein, Richard ^e   Kroll, J Simon ^a   Popovic, Tanja ^f   Spratt, Brian G ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 12444303202     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.4.1623-1636.2003     Document Type: Article

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