Comparative Genomic Hybridization Analysis Shows Different Epidemiology of Chromosomal and Plasmid-Borne cpe-Carrying Clostridium perfringens Type A

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Lahti, Päivi ^a   Lindström, Miia ^a   Somervuo, Panu ^a   Heikinheimo, Annamari ^a   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLOBIOSE; ETHANOLAMINE; INOSITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPE GENE; DNA MICROARRAY; FOOD POISONING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; CELLOBIOSE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROTOXINS; ETHANOLAMINE; FINLAND; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84867667978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046162     Document Type: Article

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