Genetic characterization and comparison of Clostridium botulinum isolates from botulism cases in Japan between 2006 and 2011

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6954-6964

  Kenri, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Akihiko ^a   Iwaki, Masaaki ^a   Komiya, Takako ^a   Hatakeyama, Takashi ^b   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^c   Takahashi, Motohide ^a,d   Kuroda, Makoto ^a   Shibayama, Keigo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^c Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health   (Japan)

^d PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL DEVICES AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; SEPARATION;

BOTULINUM NEUROTOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION; GENETIC INFORMATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PLASMID PROFILE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOTERRORISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; ELECTROKINESIS; GENOME; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOXIN;

JAPAN;

CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM;

BOTULISM; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84908280409     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02134-14     Document Type: Article

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