Closely related Campylobacter jejuni strains from different sources reveal a generalist rather than a specialist lifestyle

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gripp, Eugenia ^a   Hlahla, Daniela ^a   Didelot, Xavier ^b   Kops, Friederike ^a   Maurischat, Sven ^c   Tedin, Karsten ^c   Alter, Thomas ^c,d   Ellerbroek, Lüppo ^d   Schreiber, Kerstin ^e   Schomburg, Dietmar ^e   Janssen, Traute ^c   Bartholomäus, Patrick ^a   Hofreuter, Dirk ^a   Woltemate, Sabrina ^a   Uhr, Markus ^a   Brenneke, Birgit ^a   Grüning, Petra ^f   Gerlach, Gerald ^f   Wieler, Lothar ^b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^a   Josenhans, Christine ^a   more..

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82155168575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-584     Document Type: Article

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