Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2010 May;192(10):2645-6. doi: 10.1128/JB.00159-10. Epub 2010 Mar 26.
In syphilis research, the Nichols strain of Treponema pallidum, isolated in 1912, has been the most widely studied. Recently, important differences among T. pallidum strains emerged; therefore, we sequenced and annotated the Chicago strain genome to facilitate and encourage the use of this strain in studying the pathogenesis of syphilis.
在梅毒研究中,1912 年分离出的Nichols 株苍白密螺旋体是研究最多的。最近,苍白密螺旋体菌株之间出现了重要差异;因此,我们对芝加哥株基因组进行了测序和注释,以促进和鼓励使用该菌株来研究梅毒的发病机制。