Genomic and global approaches to unravelling how hypermutable sequences influence bacterial pathogenesis

Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 164-184

  Bidmos, Fadil A ^a   Bayliss, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial genome; Localised hypermutation; Phase variation; Phasevariome; Phasotype; Simple sequence repeat

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PILIN;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUTATION RATE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

EID: 84900411992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens3010164     Document Type: Review

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