Mlva16 typing of portuguese human and animal brucella melitensis and brucella abortus isolates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ferreira, Ana Cristina ^a,b   Chambel, Lélia ^b   Tenreiro, Tania ^b   Cardoso, Regina ^a   Flor, Lídia ^c   Dias, Isabel Travassos ^a   Pacheco, Teresa ^d   Garin Bastuji, Bruno ^e   Le Flèche, Philippe ^f,g,h   Vergnaud, Gilles ^f,g,i   Tenreiro, Rogério ^b   de Sá, Maria Inácia Corrêa ^a  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Investigacao Veterinaria   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c Direcção Regional do Desenvolvimento Agrário   (Portugal)

^d Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental   (Portugal)

^e Agence National de Sécurité Sanitaire Alimentation Environnement Travail   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h Delegation Generale pour l'Armement   (France)

ⁱ Mission pour la Recherche et l'Innovation Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOASSAY; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865058026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042514     Document Type: Article

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