期刊论文详细信息
New Microbes and New Infections | |
Genome of a chronic osteitis-causing Clostridium tetani | |
D. Raoult1  P.-Y. Levy1  M. Million1  P. Brouqui1  P.-E. Fournier1  C. Blanc-Tailleur1  O. Croce1  | |
[1] Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France; | |
关键词: Chronic osteitis; Clostridium tetani; genome; neurotoxin; tetanospasmin; | |
DOI : 10.1002/2052-2975.27 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
We sequenced the genome of a Clostridium tetani strain that caused chronic tibial osteitis without any clinical sign of tetanus in a 26-year-old man previously vaccinated against this disease. The genome contained a plasmid that harboured the tetX-tetR tetanospasmin operon, and was highly similar to that of a tetanus-causing strain.
【 授权许可】
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