Clostridium botulinum group III: a group with dual identity shaped by plasmids, phages and mobile elements

Abstract

Conclusions: The completion of the genome of C. botulinum group III has revealed it to be a genome with dual identity. It belongs to the pathogenic species C. botulinum, but as a genotypic species it should also include C. novyi and C. haemolyticum. The genotypic species share a conserved chromosomal core that can be transformed into various pathogenic variants by modulation of the highly plastic plasmidome.

Published in

BMC Genomics
2011, volume: 12
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD

SLU Authors

• Skarin, Hanna

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Other Biological Topics
Genetics and Genomics

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-185

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