Whole genome mapping and re-organization of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Babesia microti isolates.

Babesia microti is the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, an emerging pathogen that causes a malaria-like illness with possible fatal outcome in immunocompromised patients. The genome sequence of the B. microti R1 strain was reported in 2012 and revealed a distinct evolutionary path for th...

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Main Authors: Emmanuel Cornillot, Amina Dassouli, Aprajita Garg, Niseema Pachikara, Sylvie Randazzo, Delphine Depoix, Bernard Carcy, Stéphane Delbecq, Roger Frutos, Joana C Silva, Richard Sutton, Peter J Krause, Choukri Ben Mamoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3762879?pdf=render