Whole-genome sequencing of staphylococcus haemolyticus uncovers the extreme plasticity of its genome and the evolution of human-colonizing staphylococcal species.

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Published in J Bacteriol on November 01, 2005

Authors

Fumihiko Takeuchi1, Shinya Watanabe, Tadashi Baba, Harumi Yuzawa, Teruyo Ito, Yuh Morimoto, Makoto Kuroda, Longzhu Cui, Mikio Takahashi, Akiho Ankai, Shin-ichi Baba, Shigehiro Fukui, Jean C Lee, Keiichi Hiramatsu

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1: Department of Microbiology and Infection Control Science, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.

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