Genome sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae, a pathogen causing invasive neonatal disease

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1499-1513

  Glaser, Philippe ^a   Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a   Chevalier, Fabien ^a   Frangeul, Lionel ^a   Msadek, Tarek ^a   Zouine, Mohamed ^a   Couvé, Elisabeth ^a   Lalioui, Lila ^b   Poyart, Claire ^b   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^b   Kunst, Frank ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Faculté de Médecine Necker   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIOPHAGE QBETA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 18644378733     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03126.x     Document Type: Article

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