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A harmless nose bacterium supplied genes that helped make the Canterbury outbreak strain invasive
Martin Maiden's team sequenced the bacterium from six Kent patients and matched it against 48,000 archived Neisseria genomes, finding iron-uptake and pilus genes acquired from species that live harmlessly in ordinary throats.
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