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The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Apr 2008
Hinchliffe Stewart J, Howard Sarah L, Huang Yahui H, Clarke David J, Wren Brendan W
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The human-pathogenic yersiniae represent an ideal species group to study the evolution of highly virulent bacteria, with Yersinia pestis having emerged from the enteropathogen Y. pseudotuberculosis an estimated 20 000 years ago. Sequence data reveal that the Y. pestis genome is in the early stages of decay and contains hundreds of non-functioning pseudogenes, some of which may be important in the enteric...
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