Streptococcus agalactiae Cβ protein gene (bac) sequence types, based on the repeated region of the cell-wall-spanning domain: Relationship to virulence and a proposed standardized nomenclature

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 829-837

  Kong, Fanrong ^a   Gidding, Heather F ^a   Berner, Reinhard ^b   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PROTEIN C BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33745674299     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46307-0     Document Type: Article

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