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Comparative genome analysis of <i>Enterococcus cecorum</i> reveals intercontinental spread of a lineage of clinical poultry isolates
2022-10-21
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Enterococcus cecorum is an emerging pathogen responsible for osteomyelitis, spondylitis, and femoral head necrosis causing animal suffering, mortality, and requiring antimicrobial use in poultry. Paradoxically, E. cecorum is a common inhabitant of the intestinal microbiota of adult chickens. Despite evidence suggesting the existence of clones with pathogenic potential, the genetic and phenotypi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 575ae524-3c13-56dc-a205-1315f3dec123
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.10.18.512807
