The extant World War 1 dysentery bacillus NCTC1: A genomic analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9955, 2014, Pages 1691-1697

  Baker, Kate S ^a   Mather, Alison E ^a   McGregor, Hannah ^b   Coupland, Paul ^a   Langridge, Gemma C ^a   Day, Martin ^b   Deheer Graham, Ana ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Russell, Julie E ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^a,c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLEMIZOLE PENICILLIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; DYSENTERY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; NCTC1 BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SINGLE MOLECULE REAL TIME SEQUENCING; SOLDIER; VIRULENCE; WAR; BACTERIAL GENOME; DRUG EFFECTS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 84920815687     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61789-X     Document Type: Article

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