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Identifying Neisseria species by use of the 50S ribosomal protein L6 (rplF) gene.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2014
Bennett Julia S, Watkins Eleanor R, Jolley Keith A, Harrison Odile B, Maiden Martin C J
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The comparison of 16S rRNA gene sequences is widely used to differentiate bacteria; however, this gene can lack resolution among closely related but distinct members of the same genus. This is a problem in clinical situations in those genera, such as Neisseria, where some species are associated with disease while others are not. Here, we identified and validated an alternative genetic target common to all...
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