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Identification of pneumococcal colonization determinants in the stringent response pathway facilitated by genomic diversity.
BMC genomics - 9 May 2015
Li Yuan, Croucher Nicholas J, Thompson Claudette M, Trzciński Krzysztof, Hanage William P, Lipsitch Marc
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Understanding genetic determinants of a microbial phenotype generally involves creating and comparing isogenic strains differing at the locus of interest, but the naturally existing genomic and phenotypic diversity of microbial populations has rarely been exploited. Here we report use of a diverse collection of 616 carriage isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their genome sequences to help...
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