[News Feed] New Insights Into Chlamydial Infection: Genome Decoded Of Sheep Pathogen

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It is spring time, and the idyllic image is of new-born lambs and their mothers feasting on lush pastures. But a potential killer lurks in the grass. Today, the hiding places for that killer - a bacterium called Chlamydophila abortus - are fewer because of the genome sequence produced in a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Moredun Research Institute and the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0608102434.htm