Genome Sequence of Rickettsia bellii Illuminates the Role of Amoebae in Gene Exchanges between Intracellular Pathogens

Hiroyuki Ogata; Bernard La Scola; Stéphane Audic; Patricia Renesto; Guillaume Blanc; Catherine Robert; Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Jean-Michel Claverie; Didier Raoult

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0020076

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Genome Sequence of Rickettsia bellii Illuminates the Role of Amoebae in Gene Exchanges between Intracellular Pathogens

Hiroyuki Ogata ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Hiroyuki.Ogata@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr (HO); Didier.Raoult@medecine.univ-mrs.fr (DR)

Affiliation Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR-2589, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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Bernard La Scola,

Affiliation Unité des Rickettsies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR-6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Stéphane Audic,

Affiliation Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR-2589, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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Patricia Renesto,

Affiliation Unité des Rickettsies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR-6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Guillaume Blanc,

Affiliation Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR-2589, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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Catherine Robert,

Affiliation Unité des Rickettsies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR-6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Pierre-Edouard Fournier,

Affiliation Unité des Rickettsies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR-6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Jean-Michel Claverie,

Affiliation Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR-2589, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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Didier Raoult

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Hiroyuki.Ogata@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr (HO); Didier.Raoult@medecine.univ-mrs.fr (DR)

Affiliation Unité des Rickettsies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR-6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Genome Sequence of Rickettsia bellii Illuminates the Role of Amoebae in Gene Exchanges between Intracellular Pathogens

Hiroyuki Ogata,
Bernard La Scola,
Stéphane Audic,
Patricia Renesto,
Guillaume Blanc,
Catherine Robert,
Pierre-Edouard Fournier,
Jean-Michel Claverie,
Didier Raoult

Published: May 12, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0020076

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