Fine Analysis of Genetic Diversity of the tpr Gene Family among Treponemal Species, Subspecies and Strains

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a   Giacani, Lorenzo ^a   Godornes, Charmie ^a   Molini, Barbara J ^a   Brinck Reid, Tara ^a   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TPR GENE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA ENDEMICUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PARALUISCUNICULI; TREPONEMA PERTENUE;

EID: 84878518777     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002222     Document Type: Article

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