Behavior and target site selection of conjugative transposon Tn916 in two different strains of toxigenic Clostridium difficile

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2147-2153

  Mullany, Peter ^a   Williams, Rachel ^a   Langridge, Gemma C ^b   Turner, Daniel J ^b   Whalan, Rachael ^a   Clayton, Chris ^a   Lawley, Trevor ^b   Hussain, Haitham ^a   McCurrie, Katherine ^a   Morden, Nicky ^a   Allan, Elaine ^a   Roberts, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ISOLATES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; ILLUMINA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; INSERTION SITE; INTERGENIC REGIONS; TOXIGENIC;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

SITE SELECTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MUTATION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SITE SELECTION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIBOTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; RIBOTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84861154088     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06193-11     Document Type: Article

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