eBURST: Inferring Patterns of Evolutionary Descent among Clusters of Related Bacterial Genotypes from Multilocus Sequence Typing Data

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1518-1530

  Feil, Edward J ^a   Li, Bao C ^b   Aanensen, David M ^b   Hanage, William P ^b   Spratt, Brian G ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SOFTWARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 1342304133     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.5.1518-1530.2004     Document Type: Article

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