Did new transmission cycles in anthropogenic, dense, host populations encourage the emergence and speciation of pathogenic Bordetella?

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Kalyan K. Dewan

* E-mail: kaldew@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Eric T. Harvill

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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