Genetic diversity of the C protein β-antigen gene and its upstream regions within clonally related groups of type la and lb group B streptococci

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 771-778

  Nagano, Noriyuki ^a,b   Nagano, Yukiko ^a   Nakano, Ryuichi ^b   Okamoto, Ryoichi ^b   Inoue, Matsuhisa ^b  

^a Funabashi Municipal Medical Center   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BLOOD GROUP B ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PROLINE; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CLONAL VARIATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 33645098747     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28535-0     Document Type: Article

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