Derivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from its O55:H7 precursor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zhou, Zhemin ^a,b   Li, Xiaomin ^a   Liu, Bin ^a,b   Beutin, Lothar ^c   Xu, Jianguo ^d   Ren, Yan ^a   Feng, Lu ^a,b   Lan, Ruiting ^e   Reeves, Peter R ^f   Wang, Lei ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^d National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI O55 H7; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649261066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008700     Document Type: Article

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