Millennia of genomic stability within the invasive Para C Lineage of Salmonella enterica
Z. Zhou, I. Lundstrom, A. Tran-Dien, S. Duchene, N.-F. Alikhan, M. J. Sergeant, G. Langridge, A. K. Fotakis, S. Nair, H. K. Stenoien, S. S. Hamre, S. Casjens, A. Christophersen, C. Quince, N. R. Thomson, , M. Achtman
The study analyzes an 800-year-old Paratyphi C genome to show its origin from swine pathogens and its long history as a human pathogen.
bioRxiv · Feb 14, 2017Microbiology