Genome of the opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus sanguinis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3166-3175

  Xu, Ping ^a   Alves, Joao M ^a   Kitten, Todd ^a   Brown, Arunsri ^a,b   Chen, Zhenming ^a,c   Ozaki, Luiz S ^a   Manque, Patricio ^a   Ge, Xiuchun ^a   Serrano, Myrna G ^a   Puiu, Daniela ^a,d   Hendricks, Stephanie ^a   Wang, Yingping ^a   Chaplin, Michael D ^a   Akan, Doruk ^a,e   Paik, Sehmi ^a,f   Peterson, Darrell L ^a   Macrina, Francis L ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Institute for Genome Research   (United States)

^e University of Virginia   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIRCULAR DNA; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ETHANOLAMINE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; DENTAL PLAQUE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RRNA OPERON; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 34247853374     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01808-06     Document Type: Article

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