Conservation of the S10-spc-α Locus within Otherwise Highly Plastic Genomes Provides Phylogenetic Insight into the Genus Leptospira

• Berta Victoria ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Berta Victoria, Ahmed Ahmed

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

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• Ahmed Ahmed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Berta Victoria, Ahmed Ahmed

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Richard L. Zuerner,

  Affiliation Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Niyaz Ahmed,

  Affiliation Pathogen Evolution Laboratory, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

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• Dieter M. Bulach,

  Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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• Javier Quinteiro,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

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• Rudy A. Hartskeerl

  * E-mail: r.hartskeerl@kit.nl

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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