Genetic relationships among reptilian and mammalian Campylobacter fetus strains determined by multilocus sequence typing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 977-980

  Dingle, Kate E ^a   Blaser, Martin J ^b   Tu, Zheng Chao ^b   Pruckler, Janet ^c   Fitzgerald, Collette ^c   Van Bergen, Marcel A P ^d,g   Lawson, Andrew J ^e   Owen, Robert J ^e   Wagenaar, Jaap A ^d,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g WHO Collaborating Centre for Campylobacter   (Netherlands)

^h WHO Collaborating Centre for Campylobacter   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIZARDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKES; TURTLES;

CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77749309590     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01439-09     Document Type: Article

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