Title : Evolution in an oncogenic bacterial species with extreme genome plasticity: Helicobacter pylori East Asian genomes - Kawai_2011_BMC.Microbiol_11_104 |
Author(s) : Kawai M , Furuta Y , Yahara K , Tsuru T , Oshima K , Handa N , Takahashi N , Yoshida M , Azuma T , Hattori M , Uchiyama I , Kobayashi I |
Ref : BMC Microbiol , 11 :104 , 2011 |
Abstract :
BACKGROUND: The genome of Helicobacter pylori, an oncogenic bacterium in the human stomach, rapidly evolves and shows wide geographical divergence. The high incidence of stomach cancer in East Asia might be related to bacterial genotype. We used newly developed comparative methods to follow the evolution of East Asian H. pylori genomes using 20 complete genome sequences from Japanese, Korean, Amerind, European, and West African strains. |
PubMedSearch : Kawai_2011_BMC.Microbiol_11_104 |
PubMedID: 21575176 |
Kawai M, Furuta Y, Yahara K, Tsuru T, Oshima K, Handa N, Takahashi N, Yoshida M, Azuma T, Hattori M, Uchiyama I, Kobayashi I (2011)
Evolution in an oncogenic bacterial species with extreme genome plasticity: Helicobacter pylori East Asian genomes
BMC Microbiol
11 :104
Kawai M, Furuta Y, Yahara K, Tsuru T, Oshima K, Handa N, Takahashi N, Yoshida M, Azuma T, Hattori M, Uchiyama I, Kobayashi I (2011)
BMC Microbiol
11 :104