Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences Covering the Seven Cronobacter Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Joseph, Susan ^a   Desai, Prerak ^b   Ji, Yongmei ^c,f   Cummings, Craig A ^c,g   Shih, Rita ^c   Degoricija, Lovorka ^c   Rico, Alain ^d   Brzoska, Pius ^c   Hamby, Stephen E ^a   Masood, Naqash ^a   Hariri, Sumyya ^a   Sonbol, Hana ^a   Chuzhanova, Nadia ^a   McClelland, Michael ^b,e   Furtado, Manohar R ^c   Forsythe, Stephen J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego   (United States)

^c Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^d Life Technologies   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g Sequenta Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; COPPER; SIALIC ACID; SILVER; TELLURIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRONOBACTER; CRONOBACTER CONDIMENTO; CRONOBACTER DUBLINENSIS; CRONOBACTER MALONATICUS; CRONOBACTER MUYTJENSII; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; CRONOBACTER TURICENSIS; CRONOBACTER UNIVERSALIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MENINGITIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRONOBACTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84869219169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049455     Document Type: Article

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