Emergence and global dissemination of host-specific Streptococcus agalactiae clones

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Skov Sørensen, Uffe B ^a   Poulsen, Knud ^a   Ghezzo, Claudia ^b   Margarit, Immaculada ^b   Kilian, Mogens ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BOS; BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 79952144575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00178-10     Document Type: Article

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