Prescottia equi gen. nov., comb. nov.: A new home for an old pathogen

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 655-671

  Jones, Amanda L ^a,b   Sutcliffe, Iain C ^a   Goodfellow, Michael ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRESCOTTIA EQUI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RHODOCOCCUS KUNMINGENSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

PRESCOTTIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84878271960     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-012-9850-8     Document Type: Article

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