Genetic basis for the new pneumococcal serotype, 6C

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4482-4489

  In, Ho Park ^a   Park, Saeyoung ^a,b   Hollingshead, Susan K ^b   Nahm, Moon H ^a,b,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSULE GENE LOCUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PNEUMOCOCCAL SEROTYPE 6C; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES; WCIN GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34548487324     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00510-07     Document Type: Article

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