Co-evolution of genomes and plasmids within Chlamydia trachomatis and the emergence in Sweden of a new variant strain

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Seth Smith, Helena M B ^b   Harris, Simon R ^b   Persson, Kenneth ^c   Marsh, Pete ^d   Barron, Andrew ^b   Bignell, Alexandra ^b   Bjartling, Carina ^c   Clark, Louise ^b   Cutcliffe, Lesley T ^a   Lambden, Paul R ^a   Lennard, Nicola ^b   Lockey, Sarah J ^a   Quail, Michael A ^b   Salim, Omar ^a   Skilton, Rachel J ^a   Wang, Yibing ^a   Holland, Martin J ^e   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^b   Clarke, Ian N ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SWEDEN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SWEDEN;

EID: 67649114038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-239     Document Type: Article

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