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Phylogeny and virulence of naturally occurring type III secretion system-deficient Pectobacterium strains.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2009
Kim Hye-Sook, Ma Bing, Perna Nicole T, Charkowski Amy O
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Pectobacterium species are enterobacterial plant-pathogenic bacteria that cause soft rot disease in diverse plant species. Previous epidemiological studies of Pectobacterium species have suffered from an inability to identify most isolates to the species or subspecies level. We used three previously described DNA-based methods, 16S-23S intergenic transcribed spacer PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism...
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