Complete genome sequence and analysis of the multiresistant nosocomial pathogen Corynebacterium jeikeium K411, a lipid-requiring bacterium of the human skin flora

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4671-4682

  Tauch, Andreas ^a   Kaiser, Olaf ^a   Hain, Torsten ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^a   Weisshaar, Bernd ^a   Albersmeier, Andreas ^a   Bekel, Thomas ^a   Bischoff, Nicole ^a   Brune, Iris ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a   Meyer, Folker ^a   Rupp, Oliver ^a   Schneiker, Susanne ^a   Viehoever, Prisca ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; IRON; MANGANESE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; AXILLA; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE COMPOSITION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SKIN;

CORYNEBACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM EFFICIENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM;

EID: 21144440616     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.13.4671-4682.2005     Document Type: Article

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