Pneumococcal capsular switching: A historical perspective

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-449

  Wyres, Kelly L ^a   Lambertsen, Lotte M ^c   Croucher, Nicholas J ^b   McGee, Lesley ^d   Von Gottberg, Anne ^g   Liñares, Josefina ^h   Jacobs, Michael R ^f   Kristinsson, Karl G ⁱ   Beall, Bernard W ^d   Klugman, Keith P ^e,g   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^j   Bentley, Stephen D ^b   Brueggemann, Angela B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

ⁱ LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^j Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Capsule; pneumococcus; serotype; switching

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2X; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSULAR SWITCHING; CLONAL COMPLEX; DEXB GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 1A GENE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2X GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RMLA GENE; RMLC GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WCHA GENE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE; ALIA GENE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; PBP1A GENE; PBP2X GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC113; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC124; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC15; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC156/162; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC191; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC218; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC574; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE CC66; WCIY GENE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84872038034     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis703     Document Type: Article

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