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Simultaneous presence of two different copies of the 16S rRNA gene in Bartonella henselae.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Sept 2008
Viezens Juliane, Arvand Mardjan
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Bartonella henselae is an emerging pathogen of increasing medical significance. Previous investigations have revealed two different 16S rRNA gene variants among B. henselae isolates, resulting in delineation of the B. henselae population into 16S RNA type I and type II isolates. While studying 191 B. henselae isolates by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) we detected three isolates that could not be assigned to a...
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