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Genetic diversity within the genus Francisella as revealed by comparative analyses of the genomes of two North American isolates from environmental sources.
BMC genomics - 24 Aug 2012
Siddaramappa Shivakumara, Challacombe Jean F, Petersen Jeannine M, Pillai Segaran, Kuske Cheryl R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Francisella tularensis is an intracellular pathogen that causes tularemia in humans and the public health importance of this bacterium has been well documented in recent history. Francisella philomiragia, a distant relative of F. tularensis, is thought to constitute an environmental lineage along with Francisella novicida. Nevertheless, both F. philomiragia and F. novicida have been associated with...
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