The Impact of Horizontal Gene Transfer on the Biology of Clostridium difficile

Advances in Microbial Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-82

  Roberts, Adam P ^a   Allan, Elaine ^a   Mullany, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Clostridium difficile; Conjugative transposon; Horizontal gene transfer; Mobile genetic elements; Mobilisable transposon; PaLoc; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSON; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTRON; MOBILISABLE TRANSPOSON; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; DIARRHEA; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; INTRONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84919484042     PISSN: 00652911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2014.08.002     Document Type: Chapter

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