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Timothy D Read1, Scott N Peterson, Nicolas Tourasse

  • 1The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA. anthrax@tigr.org).

Nature
|May 2, 2003
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,バチルス・アントラシスの染色体を配列化し,新たな潜在的毒性因子と表面タンパク質を明らかにした. このゲノムデータは,炭菌の病原性に関する理解を深め,潜在的なワクチン標的を特定します.

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