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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Scanning hardware
ORGANISM(S): Bordetella pertussis
SUBMITTER: Craig Cummings
PROVIDER: E-TABM-54 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of bacteriology 20060401 7
Bordetella pertussis, an obligate human pathogen and the agent of whooping cough, is a clonal species, despite the dynamic selection pressures imposed by host immunity and vaccine usage. Because the generation of variation is critical for species evolution, we employed a variety of approaches to examine features of B. pertussis genetic variation. We found a high level of conservation of gene content among 137 B. pertussis strains with different geographical, temporal, and epidemiological associa ...[more]