Analysis of Multiple Brachyspira hyodysenteriae Genomes Confirms That the Species Is Relatively Conserved but Has Potentially Important Strain Variation

• Michael Black ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Black, Paula Moolhuijzen

  Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Paula Moolhuijzen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Black, Paula Moolhuijzen

  Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Roberto Barrero,

  Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Tom La,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Nyree Phillips,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• David Hampson,

  Affiliation School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Werner Herbst,

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Stefanie Barth,

  Current address: Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut/Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Jena, Germany

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Matthew Bellgard

  * E-mail: mbellgard@ccg.murdoch.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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