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Pathogenicity islands: the tip of the iceberg.
Hentschel, Ute and Hacker, Jörg (2001) Pathogenicity islands: the tip of the iceberg. Microbes and Infection, 3 (7). pp. 545-548. DOI 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01410-1.
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Abstract
Pathogenicity islands represent distinct genetic elements encoding virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria. Pathogenicity islands belong to the class of genomic islands, which are common genetic elements sharing a set of unifying features. Genomic islands have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer. In recent years many different genomic islands have been discovered in a variety of pathogenic as well as non-pathogenic bacteria. Because they promote genetic variability, genomic islands play an important role in microbial evolution
Document Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | pathogenicity islands; genomic islands; horizontal gene transfer; evolution; virulence |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Access Journal?: | No |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2015 10:52 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2020 05:52 |
URI: | https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29448 |
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