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What makes a bacterial species able to cause human disease?
2016-02-18 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock and other domesticated mammals, wildlife and humans. The findings are published in the February 18 online issue of PLOS Neglected …
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