The genome of a pathogenic rhodococcus: cooptive virulence underpinned by key gene acquisitions.

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Published in PLoS Genet on September 30, 2010

Authors

Michal Letek1, Patricia González, Iain Macarthur, Héctor Rodríguez, Tom C Freeman, Ana Valero-Rello, Mónica Blanco, Tom Buckley, Inna Cherevach, Ruth Fahey, Alexia Hapeshi, Jolyon Holdstock, Desmond Leadon, Jesús Navas, Alain Ocampo, Michael A Quail, Mandy Sanders, Mariela M Scortti, John F Prescott, Ursula Fogarty, Wim G Meijer, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D Bentley, José A Vázquez-Boland

Author Affiliations

1: Microbial Pathogenesis Unit, Centres for Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Infection, and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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