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Is genotyping of single isolates sufficient for population structure analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis airways?
BMC genomics - 9 Aug 2016
Sommer Lea M, Marvig Rasmus L, Luján Adela, Koza Anna, Pressler Tacjana, Molin Søren, Johansen Helle K
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BACKGROUND: The primary cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Therefore much work has been done to understand the adaptation and evolution of P. aeruginosa in the CF lung. However, many of these studies have focused on longitudinally collected single isolates, and only few have included cross-sectional analyses of entire P. aeruginosa...
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