Genomic reconnaissance of clinical isolates of emerging human pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus reveals high evolutionary potential

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Choo, Siew Woh ^a   Wee, Wei Yee ^a   Ngeow, Yun Fong ^a   Mitchell, Wayne ^b,c   Tan, Joon Liang ^a   Wong, Guat Jah ^a   Zhao, Yongbing ^d,e   Xiao, Jingfa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c LanzaTech Limited   (United States)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84907166263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04061     Document Type: Article

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