Absence of a set of plasmid-encoded genes is predictive of reduced pathogenic potential in brachyspira hyodysenteriae

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• who: SHORT REPORT et al. from the Spirochaete strains were obtained as frozen stock from the culture collections at Murdoch University and the Scottish Agricultural CollegeThe B. hyodysenteriae strains used in the microarray analysis were selected to include six that have been reported in the literature to be virulent (B204, BW1, NSW5, NSW15, and Vic2) and eight that have been reported to colonise fewer pigs and/or cause milder disease (A1, B T, , FM88.90, , and VS1) [5-7, ]. These are recorded as "avirulent", although they are not fully avirulent. Four other strains (P252/, have published the . . .
  

   

  

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