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Hybrid Vibrio vulnificus.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2005
Bisharat Naiel, Cohen Daniel I, Harding Rosalind M, Falush Daniel, Crook Derrick W, Peto Tim, Maiden Martin C
Abstract excerpt
The recent emergence of the human-pathogenic Vibrio vulnificus in Israel was investigated by using multilocus genotype data and modern molecular evolutionary analysis tools. We show that this pathogen is a hybrid organism that evolved by the hybridization of the genomes from 2 distinct and independent populations. These findings provide clear evidence of how hybridization between 2 existing and nonpathogenic...
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