Dense genomic sampling identifies highways of pneumococcal recombination

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 305-309

  Chewapreecha, Claire ^a   Harris, Simon R ^a   Croucher, Nicholas J ^b   Turner, Claudia ^c,d,e   Marttinen, Pekka ^d   Cheng, Lu ^f   Pessia, Alberto ^f   Aanensen, David M ^b   Mather, Alison E ^a   Page, Andrew J ^a   Salter, Susannah J ^a   Harris, David ^a   Nosten, Francois ^c,d   Goldblatt, David ^g   Corander, Jukka ^f,h,i   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Turner, Paul ^c,d   Bentley, Stephen D ^a,i  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA FRAGMENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREND STUDY;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REFUGEES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84895858474     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2895     Document Type: Article

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