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Adaptability and persistence of the emerging pathogen Bordetella petrii.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zelazny Adrian M, Ding Li, Goldberg Joanna B, Mijares Lilia A, Conlan Sean, Conville Patricia S, Stock Frida, Ballentine Samuel J, Olivier Kenneth N, Sampaio Elizabeth P, Murray Patrick R, Holland Steven M
Abstract excerpt
The first described, environmentally isolated, Bordetella petrii was shown to undergo massive genomic rearrangements in vitro. More recently, B. petrii was isolated from clinical samples associated with jaw, ear bone, cystic fibrosis and chronic pulmonary disease. However, the in vivo consequences of B. petrii genome plasticity and its pathogenicity remain obscure. B. petrii was identified from four sequential...
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