Comparative genomic analysis of meningitis- and bacteremia- causing pneumococci identifies a common core genome

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4165-4173

  Kulohoma, Benard W ^a,b,e   Cornick, Jennifer E ^a,b   Chaguza, Chrispin ^a,b   Yalcin, Feyruz ^c   Harris, Simon R ^c   Gray, Katherine J ^a   Kiran, Anmol M ^a,b   Molyneux, Elizabeth ^a   French, Neil ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^c   Faragher, Brian E ^d   Everett, Dean B ^a,b   Bentley, Stephen D ^b,c   Heydermana, Robert S ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PILIN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN A; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PYRUVATE OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CARBON SOURCE; CHILD; DNA REPAIR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWIAN; MOUSE; MUCUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCYTOSIS; VISCOSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84944472848     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00814-15     Document Type: Article

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