GI-type T4SS-mediated horizontal transfer of the 89K pathogenicity island in epidemic Streptococcus suis serotype 2

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1670-1683

  Li, Ming ^a,b   Shen, Xiaodong ^c   Yan, Jinghua ^a   Han, Huiming ^a,d   Zheng, Beiwen ^a,d   Liu, Di ^a   Cheng, Hao ^a,d   Zhao, Yan ^b   Rao, Xiancai ^b   Wang, Changjun ^e   Tang, Jiaqi ^e   Hu, Fuquan ^b   Gao, George F ^a,d,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b Department of Microbiology ^*  (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e Research Institute for Medicine of Nanjing Command   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EXCISIONASE; INTEGRASE; LANTIBIOTIC; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; EPIDEMICS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 79952410859     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07553.x     Document Type: Article

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