1. Shigella Draft Genome Sequences: Resources for Food Safety and Public Health
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Poyin Chen, Allison M. Weis, Bart C. Weimer, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet Kong, and Brent Gilpin
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030106 microbiology ,Biology ,Infectious agents ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,Genome ,Vaccine Related ,Genetics not elsewhere classified ,03 medical and health sciences ,Biodefense ,Genetics ,medicine ,2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment ,Microbiology not elsewhere classified ,Shigella ,Prokaryotes ,Aetiology ,Molecular Biology ,Pathogen ,Foodborne pathogen ,business.industry ,Arthritis ,Prevention ,Public health ,Human Genome ,Dysentery ,Genomics ,Genome project ,Foodborne Illness ,Food safety ,medicine.disease ,Emerging Infectious Diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,Infectious diseases ,Biochemistry and Cell Biology ,Digestive Diseases ,Infection ,business ,Microbial genetics - Abstract
Shigella is a major foodborne pathogen that infects humans and nonhuman primates and is the major cause of dysentery and reactive arthritis worldwide. This is the initial public release of 16 Shigella genome sequences from four species sequenced as part of the 100K Pathogen Genome Project.
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- 2017
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