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Comparative genome analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
BMC genomics - 16 Aug 2015
Xiao Li, Ptacek Travis, Osborne John D, Crabb Donna M, Simmons Warren L, Lefkowitz Elliot J, Waites Ken B, Atkinson T Prescott, Dybvig Kevin
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BACKGROUND: Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common pathogen that causes upper and lower respiratory tract infections in people of all ages, responsible for up to 40% of community-acquired pneumonias. It also causes a wide array of extrapulmonary infections and autoimmune phenomena. Phylogenetic studies of the organism have been generally restricted to specific genes or regions of the genome, because whole genome...
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