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Identification of a divergent O-acetyltransferase gene oac1b from Shigella flexneri serotype 1b strains

Qiangzheng Sun1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Ruiting Lan2 School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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Yan Wang1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Jianping Wang1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Shengli Xia3 Branch for Enteric Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou 450016, China
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Yiting Wang1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Jin Zhang3 Branch for Enteric Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou 450016, China
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Deshan Yu4 Gansu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Zhenjun Li1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Huaiqi Jing1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China
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Jianguo Xu1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1-7 | Received 16 Mar 2012, Accepted 03 Jul 2012, Published online: 25 Jan 2019

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