The Citrobacter rodentium genome sequence reveals convergent evolution with human pathogenic Escherichia coli.

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Published in J Bacteriol on November 06, 2009

Authors

Nicola K Petty1, Richard Bulgin, Valerie F Crepin, Ana M Cerdeño-Tárraga, Gunnar N Schroeder, Michael A Quail, Nicola Lennard, Craig Corton, Andrew Barron, Louise Clark, Ana L Toribio, Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan, Gad Frankel, Nicholas R Thomson

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1: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.

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