Groupings of highly similar major surface protein (p44)-encoding paralogues: A potential index of genetic diversity amongst isolates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 727-734

  Casey, A N J ^a   Birtles, R J ^a   Radford, A D ^a   Bown, K J ^a   French, N P ^a   Woldehiwet, Z ^a   Ogden, N H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P44; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TICK; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 1642268051     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26648-0     Document Type: Article

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