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Novel Moraxella catarrhalis prophages display hyperconserved non-structural genes despite their genomic diversity.
BMC genomics - 24 Oct 2015
Ariff Amir, Wise Michael J, Kahler Charlene M, Tay Chin Yen, Peters Fanny, Perkins Timothy T, Chang Barbara J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Moraxella catarrhalis is an important pathogen that often causes otitis media in children, a disease that is not currently vaccine preventable. Asymptomatic colonisation of the human upper respiratory tract is common and lack of clearance by the immune system is likely due to the emergence of seroresistant genetic lineages. No active bacteriophages or prophages have been described in this species....
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