Population structure and evolution of pathogenicity of yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 768-775

  Ch'Ng, Shear Lane ^a   Octavia, Sophie ^a   Xia, Qiuyu ^a   Duong, An ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^a   Fukushima, Hiroshi ^b   Lan, Ruiting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SHIMANE PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL COMPLEX; GENETIC GROUPS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN PATHOGENS; MITOGENS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; POPULATION STRUCTURES; SEROTYPES; SUPERANTIGEN; VIRULENCE FACTORS; VIRULENCE PLASMIDS; Y. PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

GENES;

BIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79551471519     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01993-10     Document Type: Article

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