Fine-scale genetic diversity among Burkholderia pseudomallei soil isolates in northeast Thailand

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6678-6681

  U'Ren, Jana M ^a   Hornstra, Heidie ^a   Pearson, Talima ^a   Schupp, James M ^a   Leadem, Benjamin ^a   Georgia, Shalamar ^a   Sermswan, Rasana W ^b   Keim, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI SOIL; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; GENOTYPES; VARIABLE-NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT (VNTR);

SOILS;

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLADISTICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; SOIL MICROFLORA; THAILAND; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; THAILAND; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI;

EID: 35448979227     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00986-07     Document Type: Article

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