Diversity of the Cronobacter genus as revealed by multilocus sequence typing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3031-3039

  Joseph, S ^a   Sonbol, H ^a   Hariri, S ^a   Desai, P ^b   McClelland, M ^b   Forsythe, S J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATPD GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONOBACTER; CRONOBACTER CONDIMENTI; CRONOBACTER DUBLINENSIS; CRONOBACTER MALONATICUS; CRONOBACTER MUTYJENSII; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; CRONOBACTER TURICENSIS; CRONOBACTER UNIVERSALIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FUSA GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; GLNS GENE; GLTB GENE; GRYB GENE; INFB GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PPSA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRONOBACTER; GENETIC VARIATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84865172781     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00905-12     Document Type: Article

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