Microevolution during epidemic spread of
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Dr. Mark Achtman
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Similar to many other naturally transformable bacteria, __Neisseria meningitidis__ has yielded many examples where horizontal genetic exchange has resulted in genetic variation of individual strains. Epidemic strains are purified of genetic variants due to bottlenecks during the spread