Characterization of chromosomal regions conserved in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and lost by Yersinia pestis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4592-4599

  Pouillot, Flavie ^a   Fayolle, Corinne ^a   Carniel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHIONINE; PSEUDOURIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAGASTRIC INFECTION; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STABILITY; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 53649093802     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00568-08     Document Type: Article

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