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Tick Microbiome Characterization by Next-Generation 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing
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Read and assembly metrics inconsequential for clinical utility of whole-genome sequencing in mapping outbreaks
Nature Biotechnology
|July 11, 2013
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