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The evolution of genetic structure in the marine pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2007
Bisharat Naiel, Cohen Daniel I, Maiden Martin C, Crook Derrick W, Peto Tim, Harding Rosalind M
Abstract excerpt
Multi-locus sequence types (MLST) from a global collection of Vibrio vulnificus isolates were analysed for the contribution of recombination to the evolution of two divergent clusters of strains and a human-pathogenic hybrid genotype, which caused a disease outbreak in Israel. Recombination contributes more substantially than mutation to generating strain diversity. For allelic diversity within loci, the ratio of...
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