Opportunity and means: Horizontal gene transfer from the human host to a bacterial pathogen

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Anderson, Mark T ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; GENETICS; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 79955108610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00005-11     Document Type: Article

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