A comparative genomic analysis of diverse clonal types of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli reveals pathovar-specific conservation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 950-960

  Sahl, Jason W ^a   Steinsland, Hans ^c   Redman, Julia C ^a   Angiuoli, Samuel V ^a   Nataro, James P ^a,b,c   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^c,d   Rasko, David A ^a  

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

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79251525497     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00932-10     Document Type: Article

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