Streptococcus mutans clonal variation revealed by multilocus sequence typing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2616-2625

  Nakano, Kazuhiko ^a   Lapirattanakul, Jinthana ^a   Nomura, Ryota ^a   Nemoto, Hirotoshi ^a   Alaluusua, Satu ^b,c   Grönroos, Lisa ^c   Vaara, Martti ^c   Hamada, Shigeyuki ^d   Ooshima, Takashi ^a   Nakagawa, Ichiro ^e,f  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM DEPENDENT INFECTIOUS DISEASE; CLONAL VARIATION; CNM GENE; DENTAL CARIES; FINLAND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ADULT; ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 34548107353     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02343-06     Document Type: Article

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