Genotypic comparison of five isolates of Rickettsia prowazekii by multilocus sequence typing

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 112-117

  Ge, Hong ^a   Tong, Min ^a   Jiang, Ju ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^b   Richards, Allen L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotypes; Multilocus sequence typing; Rickettsia prowazekii

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; OMPB ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

PTEROMYINI; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 34247866582     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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