Genomic analysis reveals novel diversity among the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak isolates and additional ST36 strains

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Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Mercante, Jeffrey W ^a   Morrison, Shatavia S ^a   Desai, Heta P ^a   Raphael, Brian H ^a   Winchell, Jonas M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPISOME; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84991735018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164074     Document Type: Article

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