A horizontally acquired filamentous phage contributes to the pathogenicity of the plague bacillus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1145-1157

  Derbise, Anne ^a   Chenal Francisque, Viviane ^a   Pouillot, Flavie ^a   Fayolle, Corinne ^a   Prévost, Marie Christine ^a   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Hinnebusch, Bernard Joseph ^c   Carniel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FLEAS; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LYSOGENY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLAGUE; PROPHAGES; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

MUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33846686822     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05570.x     Document Type: Article

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