Genetic diversity within Clostridium botulinum serotypes, botulinum neurotoxin gene clusters and toxin subtypes

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 364, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-20

  Hill, Karen K ^a   Smith, Theresa J ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium botulinum genome; Ha toxin gene cluster; Horizontal gene transfer; OrfX toxin gene cluster; Phylogentic tree; Subtype

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NEUROTOXINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875806832     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33570-9-1     Document Type: Article

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