Properties of corynephage attachment site and molecular epidemiology of Corynebacterium ulcerans isolated from humans and animals in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-122

  Seto, Yukiji ^a,b   Komiya, Takako ^a   Iwaki, Masaaki ^a   Kohda, Tomoko ^b   Mukamoto, Masafumi ^b   Takahashi, Motohide ^a   Kozaki, Shunji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE D;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARCASS; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; HUMAN; JAPAN; KILLER WHALE; LION; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; DNA PROBES; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 43449123643     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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