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Serotype-conversion in Shigella flexneri:identification of a novel bacteriophage, Sf101, from a serotype 7a strain

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, August 2014
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Title
Serotype-conversion in Shigella flexneri:identification of a novel bacteriophage, Sf101, from a serotype 7a strain
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BMC Genomics, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-15-742
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Richa Jakhetia, Aruna Marri, Jonas Ståhle, Göran Widmalm, Naresh K Verma

Abstract

Shigella flexneri is the major cause of bacillary dysentery in the developing countries. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-antigen of S. flexneri plays an important role in its pathogenesis and also divides S. flexneri into 19 serotypes. All the serotypes with an exception for serotype 6 share a common O-antigen backbone comprising of N-acetylglucosamine and three rhamnose residues. Different serotypes result from modification of the basic backbone conferred by phage-encoded glucosyltransferase and/or acetyltransferase genes, or plasmid-encoded phosphoethanolamine transferase. Recently, a new site for O-acetylation at positions 3 and 4 of RhaIII, in serotypes 1a, 1b, 2a, 5a and Y was shown to be mediated by the oacB gene. Additionally, this gene was shown to be carried by a transposon-like structure inserted upstream of the adrA region on the chromosome.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 28 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Student > Master 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 7%
Chemistry 2 7%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 8 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2014.
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#14,199,380
of 22,761,738 outputs
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#5,692
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#121,241
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Genomics
#83
of 181 outputs
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