Species status of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Evolutionary and epidemiological inferences from multilocus sequence typing

BMC Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bennett, Julia S ^a   Jolley, Keith A ^a   Sparling, P Frederick ^b   Saunders, Nigel J ^c   Hart, C Anthony ^d   Feavers, Ian M ^e   Maiden, Martin C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ALLELE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 35448930230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-35     Document Type: Article

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