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Genome Assembly of Shigella flexneri ATCC 12022, a Quality Control Reference Strain
H E Daligault1, K W Davenport1, T D Minogue2
1Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
Genome Announcements
|November 1, 2014
Abstract:
Shigella flexneri causes shigellosis, severe and potentially life-threatening diarrhea, and accounts for 18% of shigellosis cases in the United States. Here, we present the 4.51-Mbp genome assembly of S. flexneri ATCC 12022, a quality control and reference strain, in 10 scaffolds.
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