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The pan-genome of the animal pathogen Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis reveals differences in genome plasticity between the biovar ovis and equi strains.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Soares Siomar C, Silva Artur, Trost Eva, Blom Jochen, Ramos Rommel, Carneiro Adriana, Ali Amjad, Santos Anderson R, Pinto Anne C, Diniz Carlos, Barbosa Eudes G V, Dorella Fernanda A, Aburjaile Flávia, Rocha Flávia S, Nascimento Karina K F, Guimarães Luís C, Almeida Sintia, Hassan Syed S, Bakhtiar Syeda M, Pereira Ulisses P, Abreu Vinicius A C, Schneider Maria P C, Miyoshi Anderson, Tauch Andreas, Azevedo Vasco
Abstract excerpt
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a facultative intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of several infectious and contagious chronic diseases, including caseous lymphadenitis, ulcerative lymphangitis, mastitis, and edematous skin disease, in a broad spectrum of hosts. In addition, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infections pose a rising worldwide economic problem in ruminants. The complete genome...
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