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Genome dynamics of Campylobacter jejuni in response to bacteriophage predation.
PLoS pathogens - 24 Aug 2007
Scott Andrew E, Timms Andrew R, Connerton Phillippa L, Loc Carrillo Catherine, Adzfa Radzum Khairul, Connerton Ian F
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of food-borne illness. Although a natural reservoir of the pathogen is domestic poultry, the degree of genomic diversity exhibited by the species limits the application of epidemiological methods to trace specific infection sources. Bacteriophage predation is a common burden placed upon C. jejuni populations in the avian gut, and we show that amongst C. jejuni that survive...
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