Objections to the transfer of Francisella novicida to the subspecies rank of Francisella tularensis - Response to Johansson et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1718-1720

  Busse, Hans Jürgen ^a   Huber, Birgit ^a   Anda, Pedro ^b   Escudero, Raquel ^b   Scholz, Holger C ^c   Seibold, Erik ^c   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^c   Kämpfer, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LETTER; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSP. NOVICIDA;

EID: 77955592084     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.022830-0     Document Type: Letter

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