From genotype to phenotype: Can systems biology be used to predict Staphylococcus aureus virulence

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 791-797

  Priest, Nicholas K ^a   Rudkin, Justine K ^a   Feil, Edward J ^a   Van Den Elsen, Jean M H ^a   Cheung, Ambrose ^b   Peacock, Sharon J ^c   Laabei, Maisem ^a   Lucks, David A ^d   Recker, Mario ^e   Massey, Ruth C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Western Infectious Disease Consultants   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84867800804     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2880     Document Type: Review

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