Citrobacter rodentium is an unstable pathogen showing evidence of significant genomic flux

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Petty, Nicola K ^a,b   Feltwell, Theresa ^a   Pickard, Derek ^a   Clare, Simon ^a   Toribio, Ana L ^a   Fookes, Maria ^a   Roberts, Kevin ^b   Monson, Rita ^b   Nair, Satheesh ^a   Kingsley, Robert A ^a   Bulgin, Richard ^c   Wiles, Siouxsie ^c   Goulding, David ^a   Keane, Thomas ^a   Corton, Craig ^a   Lennard, Nicola ^a   Harris, David ^a   Willey, David ^a   Rance, Richard ^a   Yu, Lu ^a   Choudhary, Jyoti S ^a   Churcher, Carol ^a   Quail, Michael A ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Frankel, Gad ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Salmond, George P C ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^a   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMID; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; MUS;

ANIMALS; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79955753012     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002018     Document Type: Article

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