Genome sequencing and analysis of a type A clostridium perfringens isolate from a case of bovine clostridial abomasitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nowell, Victoria J ^a   Kropinski, Andrew M ^a,b   Songer, J Glenn ^c   MacInnes, Janet I ^a   Parreira, Valeria R ^a   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STOMACH DISEASE;

AVES; BOVINAE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 84857864271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032271     Document Type: Article

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