Genetic diversity of the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae by genome-wide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms: Evidence for highly clonal population structure

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rattei, Thomas ^a   Ott, Stephan ^b   Gutacker, Michaela ^c   Rupp, Jan ^d   Maass, Matthias ^e   Schreiber, Stefan ^b   Solbach, Werner ^d   Wirth, Thierry ^f   Gieffers, Jens ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^e University Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLONAL SPECIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; EUKARYOTA;

CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 36349028084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-355     Document Type: Article

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