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H E Daligault1, K W Davenport1, T D Minogue2
1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
Genome Announcements
|September 20, 2014
Abstract:
Generally an opportunistic pathogen in the United States, Moraxella catarrhalis has acquired resistance to multiple antibacterial/antimicrobial agents. Here, we present the complete 1.9-Mb genome of M. catarrhalis strain ATCC 25240, as deposited in NCBI under the accession number CP008804.
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