Last month, researchers unveiled the genome of bacteria that cause severe food poisoning, typhoid fever, and the plague that devastated the Middle Ages.
In the Oct. 25 Nature, investigators from Canada, England, Vietnam, Denmark, and the United States describe the full DNA sequence of two strains of Salmonella enterica. One of the strains infects millions of people worldwide and causes severe food poisoning that can be fatal.
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