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Open AccessGenomic, morphological, and biochemical analyses of a multi-metal resistant but multi-drug susceptible strain of Bordetella petrii from hospital soil
Contamination of soil by antibiotics and heavy metals originating from hospital facilities has emerged as a major cause for the development of resistant microbes. We collected soil samples surrounding a hospit...
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Bordetella Pertussis virulence factors in the continuing evolution of whoo** cough vaccines for improved performance
Despite high vaccine coverage, whoo** cough caused by Bordetella pertussis remains one of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases worldwide. Introduction of whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines in the 1940s ...
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The genetic composition of Oxalobacter formigenes and its relationship to colonization and calcium oxalate stone disease
Oxalobacter formigenes is a unique intestinal organism that relies on oxalate degradation to meet most of its energy and carbon needs. A lack of colonization is a risk factor for calcium oxalate ...
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Tropism switching in Bordetella bacteriophage defines a family of diversity-generating retroelements
Bordetella bacteriophages generate diversity in a gene that specifies host tropism1. This microevolutionary adaptation is produced by a genetic element that combines the basic retroelement life cycle of transcrip...