Genomics of Clostridium tetani

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 326-331

  Brüggemann, Holger ^a   Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta ^b   Chapeton Montes, Diana ^c   Plourde, Lucile ^d   Speck, Denis ^d   Popoff, Michel R ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Clostridium tetani; Genomics; Plasmid; Tetanus neurotoxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; COLLAGENASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; COLT GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TENT GENE; TETR GENE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI;

CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLAGENASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84928583943     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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