Differing lifestyles of Staphylococcus epidermidis as revealed through Bayesian clustering of multilocus sequence types

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 257-264

  Thomas, Jonathan C ^a   Zhang, Liangfen ^a   Robinson, D Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian clustering; Multilocus sequence typing; Population assignment; Population structure; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIFAMOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ACME GENE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOFILM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC MARKER; ICAA GENE; IS256 GENE; MECA GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SESD GENE; SESF GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIFESTYLE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BAYESIAN CLUSTERING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POPULATION ASSIGNMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84896689828     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.06.020     Document Type: Article

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