Multigenome analysis identifies a worldwide distributed epidemic Legionella pneumophila clone that emerged within a highly diverse species

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-441

  Cazalet, Christel ^a,b   Jarraud, Sophie ^c   Ghavi Helm, Yad ^a,b   Kunst, Frank ^a,b   Glaser, Philippe ^a,b   Etienne, Jerome ^c   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 40449142494     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7229808     Document Type: Article

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