Chlamydia psittaci comparative genomics reveals intraspecies variations in the putative outer membrane and type III secretion system genes

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1378-1391

  Wolff, Bernard J ^a,b   Morrison, Shatavia S ^b   Pesti, Denise ^a   Ganakammal, Satishkumar Ranganathan ^c   Srinivasamoorthy, Ganesh ^c   Changayil, Shankar ^c   Ryan Weil, M ^c   Maccannell, Duncan ^c   Rowe, Lori ^c   Frace, Michael ^c   Ritchie, Branson W ^a   Dean, Deborah ^d,e   Winchell, Jonas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHLAMYDIA PSITTACI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PMP GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TROPISM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM GENE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI;

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84940204942     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000097     Document Type: Article

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