Variable recombination dynamics during the emergence, transmission and 'disarming' of a multidrug-resistant pneumococcal clone

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Croucher, Nicholas J ^a,b,c   Hanage, William P ^a   Harris, Simon R ^b   McGee, Lesley ^d   van der Linden, Mark ^e   de Lencastre, Herminia ^f,g   Sá Leão, Raquel ^f   Song, Jae Hoon ^h   Ko, Kwan S ^h   Beall, Bernard ^d   Klugman, Keith P ^i,j   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Tomasz, Alexander ^g   Kristinsson, Karl G ^k   Bentley, Stephen D ^b,l  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^g ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^k LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacterial evolution; Coalescent analysis; Mobile genetic elements; Phylogeography; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ICELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CLONE CELLS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ICELAND; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902739755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-49     Document Type: Article

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