Genetic diversity of the obligate intracellular bacterium <it>Chlamydophila pneumoniae </it>by genome-wide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms: evidence for highly clonal population structure
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Chlamydophila pneumoniae </it>is an obligate intracellular bacterium that replicates in a biphasic life cycle within eukaryotic host cells. Four published genomes revealed an identity of > 99 %. This remarkable fin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/355 |