Capsular types of Klebsiella pneumoniae revisited by wzc sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Pan, Yi Jiun ^a   Lin, Tzu Lung ^a   Chen, Yen Hua ^a   Hsu, Chun Ru ^a   Hsieh, Pei Fang ^a   Wu, Meng Chuan ^a   Wang, Jin Town ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATHETER INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WZC GENE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84892583606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080670     Document Type: Article

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