Rapid high resolution genotyping of Francisella tularensis by whole genome sequence comparison of annotated genes ("MLST+")

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Antwerpen, Markus H ^a   Prior, Karola ^b   Mellmann, Alexander ^b   Höppner, Sebastian ^b   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^a,c   Harmsen, Dag ^b  

^a Institute for Microbiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS HOLARCTICA; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBSPECIES; TULAREMIA; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAPLORHINI; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONKEY DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; RODENT DISEASE; VETERINARY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TULAREMIA;

EID: 84927549506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123298     Document Type: Article

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