Comparative genome analysis of 19 Ureaplasma urealyticum and Ureaplasma parvum strains

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Paralanov, Vanya ^a   Lu, Jin ^b   Duffy, Lynn B ^b   Crabb, Donna M ^b   Shrivastava, Susmita ^a   Methé, Barbara A ^a   Inman, Jason ^a   Yooseph, Shibu ^a   Xiao, Li ^b   Cassell, Gail H ^b   Waites, Ken B ^b   Glass, John I ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; SEROTYPE; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 84861541782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-88     Document Type: Article

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