Global evolution and phylogeography of Brucella melitensis strains

Abstract Background Brucellosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease. Annually in the world more than 500,000 new cases of brucellosis in humans are registered. In this study, we propose an evolutionary model of the historical distribution of B. melitensis based on the full-genomic SNP analysis of 98 str...

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Main Authors: Sergey V. Pisarenko, Dmitry A. Kovalev, Anna S. Volynkina, Dmitry G. Ponomarenko, Diana V. Rusanova, Nina V. Zharinova, Anna A. Khachaturova, Lyudmila E. Tokareva, Irina G. Khvoynova, Alexander N. Kulichenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4762-2