Microarray identification of Clostridium difficile core components and divergent regions associated with host origin

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3881-3891

  Janvilisri, Tavan ^a,e   Scaria, Joy ^a   Thompson, Angela D ^b   Nicholson, Ainsley ^b   Limbago, Brandi M ^b   Arroyo, Luis G ^c   Songer, J Glenn ^d   Gröhn, Yrjö T ^a   Chang, Yung Fu ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; R FACTOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EQUIDAE; POSIBACTERIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67549102416     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00222-09     Document Type: Article

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