Pathogenecity Island (PAI) At Biology Glossary

What is it? A region of a bacterial chromosome that seems to have been acquired via horizontal gene transfer and includes a group of genes encoding virulence factors. Evidence of horizontal gene transfer may be comparison with genomes from related nonpathogenic bacte

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