Genome rearrangements of completely sequenced strains of Yersinia pestis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1619-1623

  Liang, Ying ^a   Hou, Xuexin ^a   Wang, Yanhua ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Zhang, Zhikai ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyu ^a   Xia, Lianxu ^a   Shen, Xiaona ^a   Cai, Hong ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Xu, Donglei ^a   Zhang, Enmin ^a   Zhang, Huijuan ^a   Wei, Jianchun ^a   He, Jinrong ^a   Song, Zhizhong ^b   Yu, Xue Jie ^c   Yu, Dongzheng ^a   Hai, Rong ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CHINA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77951826531     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01473-09     Document Type: Article

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