Population-based analysis of invasive nontypeable pneumococci reveals that most have defective capsule synthesis genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Park, In Ho ^a,d   Geno, K Aaron ^a   Sherwood, Logan K ^b   Nahm, Moon H ^a,c   Beall, Bernard ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE SYNTHESIS GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NOSE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION;

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARRIER STATE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; NOSE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84901325484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097825     Document Type: Article

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