Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ST42 (O:1) Strain Misidentified as Yersinia pestis by Mass Spectrometry Analysis.
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SUBMITTER: Gerome P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4056287 | biostudies-other | 2014
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ST42 (O:1) Strain Misidentified as Yersinia pestis by Mass Spectrometry Analysis.
Gérôme Patrick P Le Flèche Philippe P Blouin Yann Y Scholz Holger C HC Thibault François M FM Raynaud Françoise F Vergnaud Gilles G Pourcel Christine C
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We report here the draft sequence of strain CEB14_0017, alias HIAD_DUP, recovered from a human patient and initially identified as Yersinia pestis by mass spectrometry analysis. Genotyping based on tandem repeat polymorphism assigned the strain to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis sequence type 42 (ST42). The total assembly length is 4,894,739 bp. ...[more]
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