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Novel analytic approach reveals low Campylobacter jejuni genome plasticity

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 21st, 2004

A novel analytic approach has revealed low genome plasticity in Campylobacter jejuni.

In a recent study, scientists in Canada "used comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)" on a full-genome C. jejuni microarray "to examine genome-wide gene conservation patterns among 51 strains isolated from food and clinical sources."

"These data have been integrated with data from three previous C. jejuni CGH studies to perform a meta-analysis that included 97 strains from the four separate data sets," explained E.N. Taboada and coauthors at the National Research Council of Canada.

"Although many genes were found to be...

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