Prediction of pathogenicity islands in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 using genomic barcodes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 194-198

  Wang, Guoqing ^a,b   Zhou, Fengfeng ^a   Olman, Victor ^a   Li, Fan ^b   Xu, Ying ^a,b  

^a Institute of Bioinformatics   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EHEC O157:H7; Escherichia coli; Genomic barcode; Pathogenicity island

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 71549122868     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.067     Document Type: Article

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