New plasmids and putative virulence factors from the draft genome of an Australian clinical isolate of Photorhabdus asymbiotica

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-143

  Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Paszkiewicz, Konrad ^a   Moorhouse, Alex ^a   Szubert, Jan M ^b   Beatson, Scott ^b   Gerrard, John ^c   Waterfield, Nicholas R ^d   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; bioinformatics; de novo sequence assembly; genome sequencing; Illumina; Photorhabdus asymbiotica

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AUSTRALIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77954708208     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02030.x     Document Type: Article

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