Leptospira kmetyi sp. nov., isolated from an environmental source in Malaysia

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 705-708

  Slack, Andrew T ^a   Khairani Bejo, Siti ^b   Symonds, Meegan L ^a   Dohnt, Michael F ^a   Galloway, Renee L ^c   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^c   Bahaman, Abdul R ^b   Craig, Scott ^a   Harrower, Bruce J ^d   Smythe, Lee D ^a  

^a WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR REFERENCE AND RESEARCH ON INFLUENZA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (United States)

^d QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 AZAGUANINE; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA CONTENT; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENUS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA KMETYI; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOIL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TYPE STRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

LEPTOSPIRA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LEPTOSPIRA; LOCOMOTION; MALAYSIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 66149120708     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.002766-0     Document Type: Article

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