Description and nomenclature of Neisseria meningitidis capsule locus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 566-573

  Harrison, Odile B ^a   Claus, Heike ^b   Jiang, Ying ^c   Bennett, Julia S ^a   Bratcher, Holly B ^a   Jolley, Keith A ^a   Corton, Craig ^c   Care, Rory ^d   Poolman, Jan T ^e   Zollinger, Wendell D ^f   Frasch, Carl E ^g   Stephens, David S ^a   Feavers, Ian ^a   Frosch, Matthias ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^c   Vogel, Ulrich ^b   Quail, Michael A ^c   Bentley, Stephen D ^c   Maiden, Martin C J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^e CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

^f WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^g Frasch Biologics Consulting   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; MANNOSAMINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC DNA; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

BACTERIA; CAPSULE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NOMENCLATURE; SEROGROUP;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84875298965     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1904.111799     Document Type: Article

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