Published in BMC Microbiol on November 16, 2005
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High-throughput sequencing of Bacillus anthracis in France: investigating genome diversity and population structure using whole-genome SNP discovery. BMC Genomics (2014) 1.02
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Validation of ten new polymorphic tandem repeat loci and application to the MLVA typing of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates collected in Singapore from 1988 to 2004. J Microbiol Methods (2009) 0.95
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