Microevolution of the Chromosomal Region of Acute Disease Antigen A (adaA) in the Query (Q) Fever Agent Coxiella burnetii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Frangoulidis, Dimitrios ^a   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^a   Landt, Olfert ^b   Dehnhardt, Jasmin ^b   Henning, Klaus ^c   Hilbert, Angela ^c   Bauer, Tilman ^d   Antwerpen, Markus ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^a   Walter, Mathias C ^e,f   Knobloch, Johannes K M ^g  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TIB MOLBIOL GmbH   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d German Research Center for Environmental Health ^*

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE ANTIGEN A; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE DISEASE ANTIGEN A GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; Q FEVER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; Q FEVER; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84871882154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053440     Document Type: Article

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