Comparative genomic analyses of seventeen Streptococcus pneumoniae strains: insights into the pneumococcal supragenome.

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Published in J Bacteriol on August 03, 2007

Authors

N Luisa Hiller1, Benjamin Janto, Justin S Hogg, Robert Boissy, Susan Yu, Evan Powell, Randy Keefe, Nathan E Ehrlich, Kai Shen, Jay Hayes, Karen Barbadora, William Klimke, Dmitry Dernovoy, Tatiana Tatusova, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D Bentley, J Christopher Post, Garth D Ehrlich, Fen Z Hu

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1: Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Center for Genomic Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA.

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