The emergence of bacterial “Hopeful monsters”

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Croucher, Nicholas J ^a   Klugman, Keith P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CPS GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TONB GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84908255395     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01550-14     Document Type: Article

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