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Genetic Stabilization of the Drug-Resistant PMEN1 Pneumococcus Lineage by Its Distinctive DpnIII Restriction-Modification System.
mBio - 16 Jun 2015
Eutsey Rory A, Powell Evan, Dordel Janina, Salter Susannah J, Clark Tyson A, Korlach Jonas, Ehrlich Garth D, Hiller N Luisa
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UNLABELLED: The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) exhibits a high degree of genomic diversity and plasticity. Isolates with high genomic similarity are grouped into lineages that undergo homologous recombination at variable rates. PMEN1 is a pandemic, multidrug-resistant lineage. Heterologous gene exchange between PMEN1 and non-PMEN1 isolates is directional, with extensive gene transfer from...
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