Evidence of interspecies O antigen gene cluster transfer between Shigella boydii 15 and Escherichia fergusonii

APMIS

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 959-966

  Azmuda, Nafisa ^a,b   Rahman, Mohammed Z ^a,b,c   Sultana, Munawar ^a   Jenssen, Eirin L ^b   Khan, Sirajul I ^a   Birkeland, Nils Kåre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Escherichia fergusonii; Gene transfer; Lipopolysaccharide; O antigen; Shigella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CROSS REACTION; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CODE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SPECIES COMPARISON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; O ANTIGENS; PHYLOGENY; SHIGELLA BOYDII;

EID: 84869091874     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02926.x     Document Type: Article

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