The evolution of the Escherichia coli phylogeny

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 214-226

  Chaudhuri, Roy R ^a   Henderson, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Genomics; Pathovars; Phylogenetics; Shigella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 84857649533     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.01.005     Document Type: Review

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