The N-acylneuraminate cytidyltransferase gene, neuA, is heterogenous in Legionella pneumophila strains but can be used as a marker for epidemiological typing in the consensus sequence-based typing scheme

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4052-4058

  Farhat, Claudia ^a   Mentasti, Massimo ^b   Jacobs, Enno ^a   Fry, Norman K ^b   Lück, Christian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; N ACYLNEURAMINATE CYTIDYLTRANSFERASE GENE; NEUA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 82455216695     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00687-11     Document Type: Article

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