Genome specialization and decay of the strangles pathogen, Streptococcus equi, is driven by persistent infection

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1360-1371

  Harris, Simon R ^a   Robinson, Carl ^b   Steward, Karen F ^b   Webb, Katy S ^b   Paillot, Romain ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Holden, Matthew T G ^a,c   Waller, Andrew S ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIDEROPHORE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HORSE; LIFESTYLE; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRANGLES; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HORSE DISEASES; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84940999615     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.189803.115     Document Type: Article

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