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Salmonellosis
Reports from Seoul National University describe recent advances in salmonellosis
December 24th, 2008
According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "phi SG-JL2 is a newly discovered lytic bacteriophage infecting Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum but is nonlytic to a rough vaccine strain of serovar Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum (SG-9R), S. enterica serovar Enteritidis, S. enterica serovar Typhimurium, and S. enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Pullorum. The phi SG-JL2 genome is 38,815 bp in length (GC content, 50.9%; 230-bp-long direct terminal repeats), and 55 putative genes may be transcribed from the same strand." "Functions were assigned to 30 genes based on high amino acid similarity to known proteins. Most of the expected proteins...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-24)
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