Capsular polysaccharide synthesis regions in Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype K57 and a new capsular serotype

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2231-2240

  Pan, Yi Jiun ^a   Fang, Han Chi ^a   Yang, Hui Ching ^a   Lin, Tzu Lung ^a   Hsieh, Pei Fang ^a   Tsai, Feng Chiao ^b   Keynan, Yoav ^c   Wang, Jin Town ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS GENE; CROSS REACTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; K57 GENE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; TAIWAN; WZY GENE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER ABSCESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING; SYNTENY;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SYNTENY; TAIWAN;

EID: 49049111855     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01716-07     Document Type: Article

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