Comparative genome analysis of Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius CJ18, an African fermented camel milk isolate with adaptations to dairy environment

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jans, Christoph ^a   Follador, Rainer ^a   Hochstrasser, Mira ^a   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Meile, Leo ^a   Stevens, Marc J A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Camel; Dairy fermentation; Health risk; Lactose metabolism; Streptococcus bovis Streptococcus equinus complex; Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus; Streptococcus infantarius; Streptococcus thermophilus; Streptococcus virulence factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; LACTOSE; TRANSPOSASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERMENTED PRODUCT; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; DAIRY PRODUCT; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTARIUS SUBSP. INFANTARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MACEDONICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CAMELS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; FERMENTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; LACTOSE; MILK; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84875126449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-200     Document Type: Article

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