Bacillus anthracis in China and its relationship to worldwide lineages

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Simonson, Tatum S ^a   Okinaka, Richard T ^a,b   Wang, Bingxiang ^c   Easterday, W Ryan ^a   Huynh, Lynn ^a   U'Ren, Jana M ^a   Dukerich, Meghan ^a   Zanecki, Shaylan R ^a   Kenefic, Leo J ^a   Beaudry, Jodi ^a   Schupp, James M ^a   Pearson, Talima ^a   Wagner, David M ^a   Hoffmaster, Alex ^d   Ravel, Jacques ^e   Keim, Paul ^a,b,f  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products   (China)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 65349183672     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-71     Document Type: Article

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