Insights into the environmental reservoir of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus using comparative genomics

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Hazen, Tracy H ^a,b,c   Lafon, Patricia C ^b   Garrett, Nancy M ^b   Lowe, Tiffany M ^a,d   Silberger, Daniel J ^a,e   Rowe, Lori A ^b   Frace, Michael ^b   Parsons, Michele B ^b   Bopp, Cheryl A ^b   Rasko, David A ^c   Sobecky, Patricia A ^a,f  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Genomics; O3:K6; Phylogenomics; Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESERVOIR; SEROTYPING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84927137083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00204     Document Type: Article

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