Mobile genetic elements provide evidence for a bovine origin of clonal complex 17 of Streptococcus agalactiae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4668-4672

  Héry Arnaud, Geneviève ^a   Bruant, Guillaume ^a,e   Lanotte, Philippe ^a,b   Brun, Stella ^a   Picard, Bertrand ^c   Rosenau, Agnès ^a   Van Der Mee Marquet, Nathalie ^a,b   Rainard, Pascal ^d   Quentin, Roland ^a,b   Mereghetti, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^c AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UR1282   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MAMMALS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BOVINE NICHE; CLONAL COMPLEX; HUMAN CLONE; ISOLATES HARBORING;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 34547230616     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02604-06     Document Type: Article

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