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Molecular epidemiology of Brucella abortus isolates from cattle, elk, and bison in the United States, 1998 to 2011.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2012
Higgins James, Stuber Tod, Quance Christine, Edwards William H, Tiller Rebekah V, Linfield Tom, Rhyan Jack, Berte Angela, Harris Beth
Abstract excerpt
A variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) protocol targeting 10 loci in the Brucella abortus genome was used to assess genetic diversity among 366 field isolates recovered from cattle, bison, and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) and Texas during 1998 to 2011. Minimum spanning tree (MST) and unweighted-pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) analyses of VNTR data identified 237 different VNTR types,...
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