Large sequence polymorphisms unveil the phylogenetic relationship of environmental and pathogenic mycobacteria related to Mycobacterium ulcerans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5667-5675

  Käser, Michael ^a   Hauser, Julia ^a   Small, Pamela ^b   Pluschke, Gerd ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL MANIFESTATION; CYTOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESERVOIRS; ETIOLOGIC AGENTS; GENETIC FINGERPRINTING; GENOME SEQUENCES; ON DYNAMICS; PATHOGENIC MYCOBACTERIA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; STRAIN DIFFERENTIATION; VIRULENCE PLASMIDS;

BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; POLYMORPHISM;

STRAIN;

BACTERIUM; COMMON ANCESTRY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BURULI ULCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOTYPE; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 69449099669     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00446-09     Document Type: Article

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