Genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 2a: Insights into pathogenicity through comparison with genomes of Escherichia coli K12 and O157

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 4432-4441

  Jin, Qi ^a,g,h   Yuan, Zhenghong ^b,g   Xu, Jianguo ^c,g   Wang, Yu ^d,g   Shen, Yan ^e   Lu, Weichuan ⁱ   Wang, Jinhua ^f   Liu, Hong ^a   Yang, Jian ^f   Yang, Fan ^a   Zhang, Xiaobing ^a   Zhang, Jiyu ^a   Yang, Guowei ^a   Wu, Hongtao ⁱ   Qu, Di ^b,g   Dong, Jie ^a   Sun, Lilian ^a   Xue, Ying ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^c   Gao, Yishan ^d   Zhu, Junping ^a   Kan, Biao ^c   Ding, Keyue ^e   Chen, Shuxia ^a   Cheng, Hongsong ^d,g   Yao, Zhijian ^e   He, Bingkun ⁱ   Chen, Runsheng ^f   Ma, Dalong ^d   Qiang, Boqin ^e   Wen, Yumei ^b,g   Hou, Yunde ^a   Yu, Jun ^j   more..

^a State Key Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^h Beijing Microbial Genome Research Center   (China)

ⁱ HuaBei Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (China)

^j IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI 2A;

EID: 18644378721     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf566     Document Type: Article

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