Analysis of the Neurotoxin Complex Genes in Clostridium botulinum A1-A4 and B1 Strains: BoNT/A3, /Ba4 and /B1 Clusters Are Located within Plasmids

• Theresa J. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theresa J. Smith, Karen K. Hill

  Affiliation Integrated Toxicology Division, United States Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

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• Karen K. Hill ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theresa J. Smith, Karen K. Hill

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Khill@lanl.gov

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Brian T. Foley,

  Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• John C. Detter,

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• A. Christine Munk,

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• David C. Bruce,

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Norman A. Doggett,

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Leonard A. Smith,

  Affiliation Integrated Toxicology Division, United States Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

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• James D. Marks,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Gary Xie,

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Thomas S. Brettin

  Affiliation Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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