Identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) clades with long-term global distribution

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1321-1326

  Von Mentzer, Astrid ^a,b   Connor, Thomas R ^b,c   Wieler, Lothar H ^d   Semmler, Torsten ^d   Iguchi, Atsushi ^e   Thomson, Nicholas R ^b   Rasko, David A ^f   Joffre, Enrique ^a   Corander, Jukka ^g   Pickard, Derek ^b   Wiklund, Gudrun ^a   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a   Sjöling, Åsa ^a,h   Dougan, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ALLELE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMID; SEROTYPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALLELES; BAYES THEOREM; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; O ANTIGENS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84922541769     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3145     Document Type: Article

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