Oral spirochetes implicated in dental diseases are widespread in normal human subjects and carry extremely diverse integron gene cassettes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5288-5296

  Wu, Yu Wei ^a   Rho, Mina ^a   Doak, Thomas ^b   Ye, Yuzhen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY APPROACH; ASSEMBLY INFORMATION; DATA SETS; DE BRUIJN GRAPHS; DYNAMIC NATURE; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; GENE POOLS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

BACTERIA;

GENES;

PRIMER DNA;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; DATA SET; DENTAL HEALTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTEGRON; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUTH DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREPONEMA; VALIDATION STUDY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES; TREPONEMA;

TREPONEMA;

EID: 84866156909     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00564-12     Document Type: Article

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