Virulence Evolution of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitidis by Recombination in the Core and Accessory Genome

• Biju Joseph ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Biju Joseph, Roland F. Schwarz

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Roland F. Schwarz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Biju Joseph, Roland F. Schwarz

  Affiliation Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Burkhard Linke,

  Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Jochen Blom,

  Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Anke Becker,

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Heike Claus,

  Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci (NRZM), Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Alexander Goesmann,

  Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Matthias Frosch,

  Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci (NRZM), Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Tobias Müller,

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Ulrich Vogel,

  Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci (NRZM), Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Christoph Schoen

  * E-mail: cschoen@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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