The rise and spread of a new pathogen: Seroresistant Moraxella catarrhalis

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1647-1656

  Wirth, Thierry ^a,b   Morelli, Giovanna ^c   Kusecek, Barica ^c   Van Belkum, Alex ^d   Van Der Schee, Cindy ^d   Meyer, Axel ^a   Achtman, Mark ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAYES THEOREM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMINID; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 35948940118     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6122607     Document Type: Article

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