Molecular complexity of successive bacterial epidemics deconvoluted by comparative pathogenomics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4371-4376

  Beres, Stephen B ^a,b   Carroll, Ronan K ^a,b   Shea, Patrick R ^a,b   Sitkiewicz, Izabela ^a,b   Martinez Gutierrez, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Low, Donald E ^c   McGeer, Allison ^d   Willey, Barbara M ^d   Green, Karen ^d   Tyrrell, Gregory J ^d   Goldman, Thomas D ^e   Feldgarden, Michael ^f   Birren, Bruce W ^f   Fofanov, Yuriy ^g   Boos, John ^h   Wheaton, William D ^h   Honisch, Christiane ^e   Musser, James M ^a,b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e SEQUENOM INC   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g University of Houston   (United States)

^h RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Invasive disease; Phylogeography; Population genetics; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANADA; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FORCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GEOGRAPHY; HOST; INDEL MUTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

CODON, TERMINATOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 77749254854     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911295107     Document Type: Article

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