Genetic Variation in the Staphylococcus aureus 8325 Strain Lineage Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bæk, Kristoffer T ^a   Frees, Dorte ^a   Renzoni, Adriana ^b   Barras, Christine ^b   Rodriguez, Natalia ^b   Manzano, Caroline ^b   Kelley, William L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOL SOLUBLE MODULIN ALPHA3; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; INDEL MUTATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEADY STATE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84884796495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077122     Document Type: Article

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