Virulent clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae: Identification and evolutionary scenario based on genomic and phenotypic characterization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Brisse, Sylvain ^a   Fevre, Cindy ^a   Passet, Virginie ^a   Issenhuth Jeanjean, Sylvie ^a   Tournebize, Régis ^a   Diancourt, Laure ^a   Grimont, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CLONE; COMMENSALISM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA RHINOSCLEROMATIS; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLONE CELLS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 63449117143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004982     Document Type: Article

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