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Comparative Genomic Analyses of Seventeen <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> Strains: Insights into the Pneumococcal Supragenome
4 Aug 2007
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The distributed-genome hypothesis (DGH) states that pathogenic bacteria possess a supragenome that is much larger than the genome of any single bacterium and that these pathogens utilize genetic recombination and a large, noncore set of genes as a means of diversity generation. We sequenced the genomes of eight nasopharyngeal strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from pediatric patients with upper...
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