Clostridium difficile: New Insights into the Evolution of the Pathogenicity Locus

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Monot, Marc ^a   Eckert, Catherine ^b,c   Lemire, Astrid ^b,c   Hamiot, Audrey ^a   Dubois, Thomas ^a   Tessier, Carine ^b,c   Dumoulard, Bruno ^d   Hamel, Benjamin ^e   Petit, Amandine ^b,c   Lalande, Valérie ^b,c   Ma, Laurence ^a   Bouchier, Christiane ^a   Barbut, Frédéric ^b,c   Dupuy, Bruno ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Hopital de Cambrai   (France)

^e Hôpital de Villefranche sur Saône   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROTOXINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84943636849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15023     Document Type: Article

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