Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica from the country of Georgia

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chanturia, Gvantsa ^b   Birdsell, Dawn N ^a   Kekelidze, Merab ^b   Zhgenti, Ekaterine ^b   Babuadze, George ^b   Tsertsvadze, Nikoloz ^b   Tsanava, Shota ^b   Imnadze, Paata ^b   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^c   Beckstrom Sternberg, James S ^c   Champion, Mia D ^c   Sinari, Shripad ^c   Gyuranecz, Miklos ^d   Farlow, Jason ^e   Pettus, Amanda H ^a   Kaufman, Emily L ^a   Busch, Joseph D ^a   Pearson, Talima ^a   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a   Vogler, Amy J ^a   Wagner, David M ^a   Keim, Paul ^a   more..

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Center for Disease Control and Public Health   (Georgia)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EASTERN EUROPE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TULAREMIA;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TULAREMIA;

EID: 79958839942     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-139     Document Type: Article

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