Whole genome sequence of the Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum strain Iraq B: A subpopulation of bejel treponemes contains full-length tprF and tprG genes similar to those present in T. p. subsp. pertenue strains

Lenka Mikalová; Klára Janečková; Markéta Nováková; Michal Strouhal; Darina Čejková; Kristin N. Harper; David Šmajs

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230926

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Whole genome sequence of the Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum strain Iraq B: A subpopulation of bejel treponemes contains full-length tprF and tprG genes similar to those present in T. p. subsp. pertenue strains

Lenka Mikalová,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Klára Janečková,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Markéta Nováková,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Michal Strouhal †,

† Deceased.

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Darina Čejková,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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Kristin N. Harper,

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Harper Health & Science Communications, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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David Šmajs

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dsmajs@med.muni.cz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4176-3464

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Whole genome sequence of the Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum strain Iraq B: A subpopulation of bejel treponemes contains full-length tprF and tprG genes similar to those present in T. p. subsp. pertenue strains

Lenka Mikalová,
Klára Janečková,
Markéta Nováková,
Michal Strouhal,
Darina Čejková,
Kristin N. Harper,
David Šmajs

Published: April 1, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230926

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