Non-typeable pneumococci circulating in Portugal are of cps type NCC2 and have genomic features typical of encapsulated isolates

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tavares, Débora A ^a   Simões, Alexandra S ^a   Bootsma, Hester J ^b   Hermans, Peter W M ^b,c   de Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,d   Sá Leão, Raquel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIB LIKE ORF1 GENE; ALIB LIKE ORF2 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPSULAR GENE; CBPA GENE; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS TYPE NCC2 STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NONTYPEABLE PNEUMOCOCCUS; PORTUGAL; PROPHAGE; PSPA GENE; PSPC GENE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPE I PILI GENE; TYPE II PILI GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROCAPSULE; PHYSIOLOGY;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

MICROCAPSULE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CAPSULES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PORTUGAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84930202359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-863     Document Type: Article

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