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SUBMITTER: Antwerpen MH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4391923 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antwerpen Markus H MH Prior Karola K Mellmann Alexander A Höppner Sebastian S Splettstoesser Wolf D WD Harmsen Dag D
PloS one 20150409 4
The zoonotic disease tularemia is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. This pathogen is considered as a category A select agent with potential to be misused in bioterrorism. Molecular typing based on DNA-sequence like canSNP-typing or MLVA has become the accepted standard for this organism. Due to the organism's highly clonal nature, the current typing methods have reached their limit of discrimination for classifying closely related subpopulations within the subspecies F. tularensis ...[more]