Multilocus sequence analysis and comparative evolution of virulence-associated genes and housekeeping genes of Clostridium difficile

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3171-3180

  Lemée, Ludovic ^a   Bourgeois, Ingrid ^a   Ruffin, Elodie ^a   Collignon, Anne ^b   Lemeland, Jean François ^a   Pons, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LINEAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HOST RANGE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 27144504255     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28155-0     Document Type: Article

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