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BMC microbiology. 2006-04-06; 6.34.

The Bacillus anthracis chromosome contains four conserved, excision-proficient, putative prophages

Sozhamannan S, Chute MD, McAfee FD, Fouts DE, Akmal A, Galloway DR, Mateczun A, Baillie LW, Read TD

PMID: 16600039

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis is considered to be a recently emerged clone within the Bacillus cereus sensu lato group. The B. anthracis genome sequence contains four putative lambdoid prophages. We undertook this study in order to understand whether the four prophages are unique to B. anthracis and whether they produce active phages.

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