Genetic diversity of competence gene loci in clinical genotypes of Streptococcus mutans

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3015-3020

  Klein, Marlise I ^a   Bang, Sungyon ^b   Flório, Flávia M ^a   Höfling, José Francisco ^a   Gonçalves, Reginaldo B ^a   Smith, Daniel J ^b   Mattos Graner, Renata O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CIAH GENE; CIAR GENE; CINA GENE; COIA GENE; COMA GENE; COMB GENE; COMC GENE; COMCDE GENE; COMD GENE; COME GENE; COMEA GENE; COMEC GENE; COMF GENE; COMFA GENE; COMYA GENE; COMYB GENE; COMYC GENE; COMYD GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LUXS GENE; MECA GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMU1988C COMX1 GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33747155636     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02024-05     Document Type: Article

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