Steps toward broad-spectrum therapeutics: Discovering virulence-associated genes present in diverse human pathogens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 501-

  Stubben, Chris J ^a   Duffield, Melanie L ^b   Cooper, Ian A ^b   Ford, Donna C ^b   Gans, Jason D ^a   Karlyshev, Andrey V ^c   Lingard, Bryan ^b   Oyston, Petra C F ^b   de Rochefort, Anna ^b   Song, Jian ^a   Wren, Brendan W ^d   Titball, Rick W ^e   Wolinsky, Murray ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 70549103313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-501     Document Type: Article

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