Multilocus sequence typing of Streptococcus uberis provides sensitive and epidemiologically relevant subtype information and reveals positive selection in the virulence gene pauA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2407-2417

  Zadoks, Ruth N ^a   Schukken, Ynte H ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCATENATED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAUA GENE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARAUBERIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; TAXON; UNITED STATES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PARAUBERIS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 18544385039     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.5.2407-2417.2005     Document Type: Article

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