Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   El Karkouri, Khalid ^a   Leroy, Quentin ^a   Robert, Catherine ^a   Giumelli, Bernadette ^a   Renesto, Patricia ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Parola, Philippe ^a   Audic, Stéphane ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLONAL VARIATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; TICK; VIRULENCE;

ARTHROPODA; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67649111863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-166     Document Type: Article

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