Genesis of a novel Shigella flexneri serotype by sequential infection of serotype-converting bacteriophages SfX and SfI

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sun, Qiangzheng ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Wang, Yiting ^a   Wang, Jianping ^a   Luo, Xia ^a   Zhang, Shaomin ^a   Li, Peijing ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Ye, Changyun ^a   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YAIC PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE SFL; BACTERIOPHAGE SFX; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84855176486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-269     Document Type: Article

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