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Opportunity knocks

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 6, pages 652–653 (2008)Cite this article

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This month's Genome Watch examines recent genome papers that provide insight into opportunistic pathogenesis.

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  1. Helena Seth-Smith & Alan Walker are at the Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. microbes@sanger.ac.uk,

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DATABASES

Entrez Genome Project

Acinetobacter baumannii ACICU

Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978

Acinetobacter baumannii AYE

Acinetobacter baumannii SDF

Caenorhabditis elegans

Corynebacterium urealyticum DSM 7109

Dictyostelium discoideum

Finegoldia magna ATCC 29328

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

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Seth-Smith, H., Walker, A. Opportunity knocks. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 652–653 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1985

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