Four genomic islands that mark post-1995 pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hurley, Catherine C ^a   Quirke, Anne Marie ^a   Reen, F Jerry ^a   Boyd, E Fidelma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENOMIC ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 33646781213     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-104     Document Type: Article

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