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Analysis of multi-strain Bartonella pathogens in natural host population--do they behave as species or minor genetic variants?
Epidemics - 1 Dec 2010
Chan Kung-Sik, Kosoy Michael
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Modern advances in genetic analysis have made it feasible to ascertain the variant type of a pathogen infecting a host. Classification of pathogen variants is commonly performed by clustering analysis of the observed genetic divergence among the variants. A natural question arises whether the genetically distinct variants are epidemiologically distinct. A broader question is whether the different variants...
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