Tracing genomic variations in two highly virulent Yersinia enterocolitica strains with unequal ability to compete for host colonization

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Garzetti, Debora ^a   Bouabe, Hicham ^a,b   Heesemann, Juergen ^a   Rakin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Genome comparison; Host colonization; Hyper virulent; Virulence factors; Yersinia enterocolitica; YopM; YscP

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; COLICIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE CELL; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; SPLEEN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

ANIMALS; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 84865976321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-467     Document Type: Article

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