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Host adaptation drives genome evolution and virulence diversification in a bacterial zoonotic pathogen

2026-06-29

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Understanding how zoonotic pathogens diversify across reservoir hosts remains a central question in evolutionary biology and infectious disease research. Here, we address this challenge using Leptospira interrogans , a globally distributed bacterial pathogen with an extremely wide range of animal reservoirs, as a model. After defining 13 distinct genogroups that largely align with serogroups, w...

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Literature Corpus work: 5dab7abc-7615-5833-8c5e-330dfc760926
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.29.734755

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