Yersinia enterocolitica palearctica serobiotype O:3/4 - a successful group of emerging zoonotic pathogens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Batzilla, Julia ^a   Antonenka, Uladzimir ^a   Höper, Dirk ^b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Rakin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROPHAGE; SEROBIOTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA PALEARCTICA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FIMBRIA; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

SUIDAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79959917325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-348     Document Type: Article

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