Genetic diversity of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica in Kazakhstan.

• Main Authors: Vladislav Shevtsov (Author), Alma Kairzhanova (Author), Alexandr Shevtsov (Author), Alexandr Shustov (Author), Ruslan Kalendar (Author), Sarsenbay Abdrakhmanov (Author), Larissa Lukhnova (Author), Uinkul Izbanova (Author), Yerlan Ramankulov (Author), Gilles Vergnaud (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Tularemia is a highly dangerous zoonotic infection due to the bacteria Francisella tularensis. Low genetic diversity promoted the use of polymorphic tandem repeats (MLVA) as first-line assay for genetic description. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is becoming increasingly accessible, opening the persp...