Identification, variation and transcription of pneumococcal repeat sequences

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Small interspersed repeats are commonly found in many bacterial chromosomes. Two families of repeats (BOX and RUP) have previously been identified in the genome of <it>Streptococcus pneumoniae</it>, a nasopharyngeal comme...

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Main Authors: Parkhill Julian, Vernikos Georgios S, Croucher Nicholas J, Bentley Stephen D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-02-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/120