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Emergence of recombinant strains of Helicobacter pylori during human infection.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jan 1999
Kersulyte D, Chalkauskas H, Berg D E
Abstract excerpt
Genetic recombination can be important evolutionarily in speeding the adaptation of organisms to new environments and in purging deleterious mutations. Here, we describe polymerase chain reaction (PCR), hybridization and DNA sequence-based evidence of six such exchanges between two strains of Helicobacter pylori during natural mixed infection of a patient in Lithuania. One parent strain contained the 37 kb long,...
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