Variations of plasmid content in Rickettsia felis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Belghazi, Lokmane ^a   Robert, Catherine ^a   Elkarkouri, Khalid ^a   Richards, Allen L ^b   Greub, Gilbert ^c   Collyn, François ^c   Ogawa, Motohiko ^d   Portillo, Arantxa ^e   Oteo, Jose A ^e   Psaroulaki, Anna ^f   Bitam, Idir ^g   Raoult, Didiar ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^e HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

FELIS; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE;

PRIMER DNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS;

EID: 48449093317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002289     Document Type: Article

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