Genome sequence of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain H44/76

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2371-2372

  Piet, J R ^a   Veld, R A G Huisin't ^a   van Schaik, B D C ^a   van Kampen, A H C ^a,b   Baas, F ^a   van de Beek, D ^a   Pannekoek, Y ^a   van der Ende, A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMENSAL; GENE SEQUENCE; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING;

GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B;

EID: 79955542957     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01331-10     Document Type: Note

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