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Investigation of intra-herd spread of Mycobacterium caprae in cattle by generation and use of a whole-genome sequence.
Veterinary research communications - 1 Jun 2017
Broeckl S, Krebs S, Varadharajan A, Straubinger R K, Blum H, Buettner M
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) calculated from whole genome sequencing (WGS) are ideally suited to study evolutionary relationships of pathogens and their epidemiology. Mycobacterium caprae infections have been documented frequently in cattle and red deer along the Bavarian and Austrian Alps during the last decade. However, little is still known about the transmission within cattle holdings and possible...
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