Refining the pathovar paradigm via phylogenomics of the attaching and effacing Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12810-12815

  Hazen, Tracy H ^a   Sahl, Jason W ^a,b   Fraser, Claire M ^a   Donnenberg, Michael S ^c   Scheutz, Flemming ^d   Rasko, David A ^a  

^a Institute for Genome Sciences   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PATHOTYPE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; ENTEROCYTES; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84881092850     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306836110     Document Type: Article

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