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Isolation and diagnostic potential of IS<i>Mav2</i>, a novel insertion sequence-like element from<i>Mycobacterium avium</i>subspecies<i>paratuberculosis</i>
1 Mar 2001
Abstract excerpt
A novel Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis) specific insertion sequence has been identified by representational difference analysis and designated as ISMav2. ISMav2 has no similarity to known mycobacterial IS elements but shows more than 50% identity to a non-composite transposon of Streptomyces coelicolor at the DNA and protein level. ISMav2 is present in at least three copies on the...
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