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Prevalence and acquisition of the genes for zoocin A and zoocin A resistance in Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 May 2009
Gargis Amy S, O'Rourke Anna-Lee D, Sloan Gary L, Simmonds Robin S
Abstract excerpt
Zoocin A is a streptococcolytic enzyme produced by Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus strain 4881. The zoocin A gene (zooA) and the gene specifying resistance to zoocin A (zif) are adjacent on the chromosome and are divergently transcribed. Twenty-four S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains we...
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