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Possible biased virulence attenuation in the Senegal strain of Ehrlichia ruminantium by ntrX gene conversion from an inverted segmental duplication

Ehrlichia ruminantium is a tick-borne intracellular pathogen of ruminants that causes heartwater, a disease present in Sub-saharan Africa, islands in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, inducing significant economic losses. At present, three avirulent strains of E. ruminantium (Gardel, Welgevonden a...

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Autores principales: Gordon, Jonathan L., Oliva Chavez, Adela S., Martinez, Dominique, Vachiery, Nathalie, Meyer, Damien F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36800354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266234