First insights into the evolution of Streptococcus uberis: A multilocus sequence typing scheme that enables investigation of its population biology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1420-1428

  Coffey, Tracey J ^a   Pullinger, Gillian D ^a   Urwin, Rachel ^b   Jolley, Keith A ^c   Wilson, Stephen M ^a   Maiden, Martin C ^c   Leigh, James A ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING (MST); RANDOM TOPOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MASTITIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENGLAND; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 33144478324     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1420-1428.2006     Document Type: Article

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