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Disentangling the population structure and evolution of the clam pathogen Vibrio tapetis.
Microbial ecology - 1 Jan 2014
Balboa Sabela, Bastardo Asmine, Romalde Jesús L
Abstract excerpt
Vibrio tapetis is a fastidious slow-growing microorganism that causes the Brown Ring Disease in clams. Recently, two subspecies for this bacterial pathogen have been proposed. We have developed a multilocus sequence typing scheme and performed evolutionary studies of V. tapetis population using the great majority of isolates of V. tapetis obtained worldwide until now (30 isolates). V. tapetis constitutes a high...
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