Pan-genome analysis of human gastric pathogen H. pylori: Comparative genomics and pathogenomics approaches to identify regions associated with pathogenicity and prediction of potential core therapeutic targets

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ali, Amjad ^a,b   Naz, Anam ^a   Soares, Siomar C ^b   Bakhtiar, Marriam ^b,c   Tiwari, Sandeep ^b   Hassan, Syed S ^b   Hanan, Fazal ^d   Ramos, Rommel ^e   Pereira, Ulisses ^b   Barh, Debmalya ^f   Figueiredo, Henrique César Pereira ^b   Ussery, David W ^g   Miyoshi, Anderson ^b   Silva, Artur ^e   Azevedo, Vasco ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^d KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^f Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology IIOAB   (India)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICOBACTER PYLORI VACCINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; STOMACH; STOMACH TUMOR; VIRULENCE;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84933055575     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/139580     Document Type: Article

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