Genome diversity among regional populations of Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis and Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica isolated from the US

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-17

  Samrakandi, M M ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Zhang, M ^a   Nietfeldt, J ^a   Kim, J ^a   Iwen, P C ^b   Olson, M E ^b   Fey, P D ^b   Duhamel, G E ^a   Hinrichs, S H ^b   Cirillo, J D ^a   Benson, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Francisella; Genome; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES; UNITED STATES; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 3242742163     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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