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SUBMITTER: Bulagonda EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5981450 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bulagonda Eswarappa Pradeep EP Manivannan Bhavani B Mahalingam Niranjana N Lama Manmath M Chanakya Pachi Pulusu PP Khamari Balaram B Jadhao Sudhir S Vasudevan Madavan M Nagaraja Valakunja V
Scientific reports 20180531 1
Elizabethkingia anophelis has now emerged as an opportunistic human pathogen. However, its mechanisms of transmission remain unexplained. Comparative genomic (CG) analysis of E. anopheles endophthalmitis strain surprisingly found from an eye infection patient with twenty-five other E. anophelis genomes revealed its potential to participate in horizontal gene transfer. CG analysis revealed that the study isolate has an open pan genome and has undergone extensive gene rearrangements. We demonstrat ...[more]