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European 2--a clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis dominant in the Iberian Peninsula.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2012
Rodriguez-Campos Sabrina, Schürch Anita C, Dale James, Lohan Amanda J, Cunha Mónica V, Botelho Ana, De Cruz Krystel, Boschiroli M Laura, Boniotti M Beatrice, Pacciarini Maria, Garcia-Pelayo M Carmen, Romero Beatriz, de Juan Lucía, Domínguez Lucas, Gordon Stephen V, van Soolingen Dick, Loftus Brendan, Berg Stefan, Hewinson R Glyn, Aranaz Alicia, Smith Noel H
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis isolates from the Iberian Peninsula are dominated by strains with spoligotype patterns deleted for spacer 21. Whole-genome sequencing of three Spanish strains with spacer 21 missing in their spoligotype pattern revealed a series of SNPs and subsequent screening of a selection of these SNPs identified one in gene guaA that is specific to these strains. This group of strains from the Iberian...
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