Closing the gaps between genotype and phenotype in rickettsia rickettsii

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 12-26

  Eremeeva, Marina E ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Genotyping; INDEL; Intergenic region; Rickettsia rickettsii; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SPACER DNA;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL DAMAGE; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROTYPE; TANDEM REPEAT; TICK; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRATE;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649726854     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04526.x     Document Type: Article

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