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Comparative genomics between human and animal associated subspecies of the Mycobacterium avium complex: a basis for pathogenicity.
BMC genomics - 15 Sept 2015
Timms Verlaine J, Hassan Karl A, Mitchell Hazel M, Neilan Brett A
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BACKGROUND: A human isolate of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis 43525) was sequenced and compared genomically to other mycobacterial pathogens. M. paratuberculosis 43525 was recently isolated from a patient with ulcerative colitis and belongs to the M. avium complex, a group known to infect both humans and animals. While M. paratuberculosis is a known pathogen of livestock, there...
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