Evolutionary history of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia using next generation sequencing of Mycoplasma mycoides Subsp. mycoides "Small Colony".

Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides "Small Colony" (MmmSC) is responsible for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in bovidae, a notifiable disease to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Although its origin is not documented, the disease was known in Europe in 1773. It reac...

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Main Authors: Virginie Dupuy, Lucía Manso-Silván, Valérie Barbe, Patricia Thebault, Emilie Dordet-Frisoni, Christine Citti, François Poumarat, Alain Blanchard, Marc Breton, Pascal Sirand-Pugnet, François Thiaucourt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3468273?pdf=render