Identification of genes and genomic islands correlated with high pathogenicity in Streptococcus suis using whole genome tilling microarrays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zheng, Xiao ^a,b   Zheng, Han ^a,b   Lan, Ruiting ^c   Ye, Changyun ^a,b   Wang, Yiting ^a,b   Zhang, Ji ^a,b   Jing, Huaiqi ^a,b   Chen, Chen ^a,b   Segura, Mariela ^d   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^d   Xu, Jianguo ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^b National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PROBES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 79953311167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017987     Document Type: Article

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