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. 2016 Jul;36(4):390-2.
doi: 10.3343/alm.2016.36.4.390.

First Case of Human Brucellosis Caused by Brucella melitensis in Korea

Hyeong Nyeon Kim  1 , Mina Hur  2 , Hee Won Moon  1 , Hee Sook Shim  1 , Hanah Kim  1 , Misuk Ji  1 , Yeo Min Yun  1 , Sung Yong Kim  3 , Jihye Um  4 , Yeong Seon Lee  4 , Seon Do Hwang  5
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First Case of Human Brucellosis Caused by Brucella melitensis in Korea

Hyeong Nyeon Kim et al. Ann Lab Med. 2016 Jul.
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Fig. 1. Average nucleotide identity tree of Brucella melitensis. The genome tree was constructed by using BM2015 (the isolate) and related Brucella spp.
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