Mycoplasmas and their host: Emerging and re-emerging minimal pathogens

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 196-203

  Citti, Christine ^a   Blanchard, Alain ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Univ Bordeaux   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Mycoplasmas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; SIALIDASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAGIOUS AGALACTIA; CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MC GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MMM GENE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA ALLIGATORIS; MYCOPLASMA CROCODYLI; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA LEACHII; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 84875858241     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2013.01.003     Document Type: Review

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