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. 2018 Jul 12;9:1545. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01545

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Copyright © 2018 Vergnaud, Hauck, Christiany, Daoud, Pourcel, Jacques, Cloeckaert and Zygmunt.

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B. melitensis intraspecies diversity view provided by MLVA11. 2320 among the 4971 entries with a full MLVA11 dataset belong to B. melitensis. 1049 entries are from this study, 17 are in silico entries (nine complete genomes and eight entries based on sequence reads archives) and 1254 are compiled from MLVA publications. The same MLVA11 minimum spanning tree was color-coded according to different characteristics. (A) Color coding according to assignment to East Mediterranean, West Mediterranean, or Americas groups except for strains typed in the course of the present study (white). The MLST21 genotypes deduced from whole genome sequence data are indicated. (B) Color-coding according to biovar (white when unknown). (C) Color-coding according to geographic origin defined at continent level. (D) Color-coding according to host (white when unknown).