Diversity in the Major Polysaccharide Antigen of Acinetobacter Baumannii Assessed by DNA Sequencing, and Development of a Molecular Serotyping Scheme

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Dalong ^a   Liu, Bin ^a,b   Dijkshoorn, Lenie ^c   Wang, Lei ^a,b,d   Reeves, Peter R ^e  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER NOSOCOMIALIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; FKPA GENE; GENE CLUSTER; LLDP GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PGM GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPING; WZA GENE; WZB GENE; WZC GENE; WZY GENE; WZZC GENE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84880847337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070329     Document Type: Article

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