Insight into cross-talk between intra-amoebal pathogens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gimenez, Gregory ^a,b   Bertelli, Claire ^c   Moliner, Claire ^a,b   Robert, Catherine ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a,b   Greub, Gilbert ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA DRANCOURTII; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIALES; LEGIONELLA DRANCOURTII; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLALES; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PROTISTA; RICKETTSIALES;

AMOEBA; CHLAMYDIALES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80055121868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-542     Document Type: Article

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