High-throughput sequencing provides insights into genome variation and evolution in Salmonella Typhi.

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Published in Nat Genet on July 27, 2008

Authors

Kathryn E Holt1, Julian Parkhill, Camila J Mazzoni, Philippe Roumagnac, François-Xavier Weill, Ian Goodhead, Richard Rance, Stephen Baker, Duncan J Maskell, John Wain, Christiane Dolecek, Mark Achtman, Gordon Dougan

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1: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. kh2@sanger.ac.uk

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