Extensive recombination events and horizontal gene transfer shaped the Legionella pneumophila genomes

BACKGROUND: Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular pathogen of environmental protozoa. When humans inhale contaminated aerosols this bacterium may cause a severe pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease. Despite the abundance of dozens of Legionella species in aquatic reservoirs, the vast maj...

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Autores principales: Gomez-Valero, Laura, Rusniok, Christophe, Jarraud, Sophie, Vacherie, Benoit, Rouy, Zoé, Barbe, Valerie, Medigue, Claudine, Etienne, Jerome, Buchrieser, Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22044686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-536

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