Whole-genome sequence of the transformable Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup a strain WUE2594

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2064-2065

  Schoen, Christoph ^a   Weber Lehmann, Jacqueline ^b   Blom, Jochen ^c   Joseph, Biju ^a   Goesmann, Alexander ^c   Strittmatter, Axel ^b   Frosch, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTIG MAPPING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP A; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP A;

EID: 79955426754     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00084-11     Document Type: Note

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