Genomic analyses of Clostridium perfringens isolates from five toxinotypes

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 255-263

  Hassan, Karl A ^a   Elbourne, Liam D H ^a   Tetu, Sasha G ^a   Melville, Stephen B ^c   Rood, Julian I ^b   Paulsen, Ian T ^a,d  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Genomics; Horizontal gene transfer; Pathogenesis; Plasmid; Toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; CONTIG; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS INFECTION; COMMENSAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; STOP CODON; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; SYNTENY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE ORDER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; SYNTENY;

EID: 84928583669     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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