The population genetics of commensal Escherichia coli

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-217

  Tenaillon, Olivier ^a   Skurnik, David ^b   Picard, Bertrand ^a,c   Denamur, Erick ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CELL INTERACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76949094947     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2298     Document Type: Review

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