The complexity and diversity of the pathogenicity locus in Clostridium difficile clade 5

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3159-3170

  Elliott, Briony ^a   Dingle, Kate E ^b,c   Didelot, Xavier ^d   Crook, Derrick W ^b,c   Riley, Thomas V ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Phylogeny; Toxin locus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROTOXINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84928584594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu248     Document Type: Article

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