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SUBMITTER: Bosse JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5328458 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20170104 3
<i>Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae</i> causes pleuropneumonia, an economically significant lung disease of pigs. Recently, isolates of <i>A. pleuropneumoniae</i> that were serologically distinct from the previously characterized 15 serovars were described, and a proposal was put forward that they comprised a new serovar, serovar 16. Here we used whole-genome sequencing of the proposed serovar 16 reference strain A-85/14 to confirm the presence of a unique capsular polysaccharide biosynthetic loc ...[more]