Phylogenetic relationships among Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from piscine, dolphin, bovine and human sources: A dolphin and piscine lineage associated with a fish epidemic in Kuwait is also associated with human neonatal infections in Japan

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1369-1376

  Evans, Joyce J ^a   Bohnsack, John F ^b   Klesius, Phillip H ^a   Whiting, April A ^b   Garcia, Julio C ^a   Shoemaker, Craig A ^a   Takahashi, Shinji ^c  

^a AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH UNIT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Joshi Eiyoh University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CLONE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COW; DATA BASE; DOLPHIN; EPIDEMIC; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONDURAS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JAPAN; KUWAIT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DOLPHINS; FISHES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 55549123854     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47815-0     Document Type: Article

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