Identification of pneumococcal colonization determinants in the stringent response pathway facilitated by genomic diversity

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Li, Yuan ^a   Croucher, Nicholas J ^a   Thompson, Claudette M ^a   Trzciński, Krzysztof ^a,b   Hanage, William P ^a   Lipsitch, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genomic diversity; Pneumococcal colonization; RelA SpoT homolog

Indexed keywords

SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RSH GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SR GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84929086687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1573-6     Document Type: Article

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