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Extensive allelic variation among Francisella tularensis strains in a short-sequence tandem repeat region.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2001
Johansson A, Göransson I, Larsson P, Sjöstedt A
Abstract excerpt
Members of the genus Francisella and the species F. tularensis appear to be genetically very similar despite pronounced differences in virulence and geographic localization, and currently used typing methods do not allow discrimination of individual strains. Here we show that a number of short-sequence tandem repeat (SSTR) loci are present in F. tularensis genomes and that two of these loci, SSTR9 and SSTR16, are...
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