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SUBMITTER: Fournier PE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4184619 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fournier P-E PE Levy P-Y PY Million M M Croce O O Blanc-Tailleur C C Brouqui P P Raoult D D
New microbes and new infections 20140128 1
We sequenced the genome of a Clostridium tetani strain that caused chronic tibial osteitis without any clinical sign of tetanus in a 26-year-old man previously vaccinated against this disease. The genome contained a plasmid that harboured the tetX-tetR tetanospasmin operon, and was highly similar to that of a tetanus-causing strain. ...[more]