The association of virulence factors with genomic Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Ho Sui, Shannan J ^a   Fedynak, Amber ^a   Hsiao, William W L ^a,b   Langille, Morgan G I ^a   Brinkman, Fiona S L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BARTONELLA; BORDETELLA; BRUCELLA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHLAMYDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; HAEMOPHILUS; HELICOBACTER; LEGIONELLA; LISTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77954001129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008094     Document Type: Article

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