Recombination within natural populations of pathogenic bacteria: short-term empirical estimates and long-term phylogenetic consequences.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 02, 2001

Authors

E J Feil1, E C Holmes, D E Bessen, M S Chan, N P Day, M C Enright, R Goldstein, D W Hood, A Kalia, C E Moore, J Zhou, B G Spratt

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease (WTCEID), University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3FY, United Kingdom. ed.feil@ceid.ox.ac.uk

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