Nontypeable pneumococci can be divided into multiple cps types, including one type expressing the novel gene pspK

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Park, In Ho ^a   Kim, Kyung Hyo ^b   Andrade, Ana Lucia ^c   Briles, David E ^d   Mcdaniel, Larry S ^e   Nahma, Moon H ^a,d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; PNEUMOLYSIN;

ALIC GENE; ALID GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIN GENE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE SYNTHESIS A GENE; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE SYNTHESIS LOCUS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NONTYPEABLE PNEUMOCOCCI; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOLYSIN GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSPK GENE; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84863424984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00035-12     Document Type: Article

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