Sequence-based typing of Leptospira: Epidemiology in the genomic era

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Levett, Paul N ^a  

^a Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; RODENT CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; THAILAND; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS;

EID: 45349104618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000120     Document Type: Article

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