In Vivo Capsular Switch in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Analysis by Whole Genome Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Fen Z ^a,b   Eutsey, Rory ^a   Ahmed, Azad ^a   Frazao, Nelson ^c,d   Powell, Evan ^a   Hiller, N Luisa ^a   Hillman, Todd ^a   Buchinsky, Farrel J ^a   Boissy, Robert ^a   Janto, Benjamin ^a,b   Kress Bennett, Jennifer ^a,b   Longwell, Mark ^a   Ezzo, Suzanne ^a   Post, J Christopher ^a,b   Nesin, Mirjana ^d   Tomasz, Alexander ^d   Ehrlich, Garth D ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Oeiras   (Portugal)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CHINCHILLA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; MUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84869077209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047983     Document Type: Article

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