The population genetics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from different patient populations exhibits high-level host specificity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  van Mansfeld, Rosa ^a   Jongerden, Irene ^a   Bootsma, Martin ^a   Buiting, Anton ^b   Bonten, Marc ^a   Willems, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 78149432172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013482     Document Type: Article

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