Genome sequence of a Neisseria meningitidis capsule null locus strain from the clonal complex of sequence type 198

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 5144-5145

  Schork, Sabine ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^b   Blom, Jochen ^b   Schneiker Bekel, Susanne ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^b   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Schoen, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84866427382     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01099-12     Document Type: Note

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