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                <surname>Dumler</surname>
                <given-names>J.S.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Barbet</surname>
                <given-names>A.F.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Bekker</surname>
                <given-names>C.P.J.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Dasch</surname>
                <given-names>G.A.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Palmer</surname>
                <given-names>G.H.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Ray</surname>
                <given-names>S.C.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Rikihisa</surname>
                <given-names>Y.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Rurangirwa</surname>
                <given-names>F.R.</given-names>
              </person-name>
            </authors>
            <article-title>Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila.</article-title>
            <year>2001</year>
            <volume>51</volume>
            <issue>6</issue>
            <fpage>2145</fpage>
            <lpage>2165</lpage>
            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
            <issn>1466-5026</issn>
            <essn>1466-5034</essn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/00207713-51-6-2145</pub-id>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11760958</pub-id>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Liolios</surname>
                <given-names>K.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Chen</surname>
                <given-names>I.M.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Mavromatis</surname>
                <given-names>K.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Tavernarakis</surname>
                <given-names>N.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
                <given-names>P.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Markowitz</surname>
                <given-names>V.M.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Kyrpides</surname>
                <given-names>N.C.</given-names>
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            <article-title>The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata</article-title>
            <year>2010</year>
            <volume>38</volume>
            <fpage>D346</fpage>
            <lpage>354</lpage>
            <source id="1178">Nucleic Acids Research</source>
            <abbrev>Nucleic Acids Res.</abbrev>
            <issn>0305-1048</issn>
            <essn>1362-4962</essn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/nar/gkp848</pub-id>
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        <article-title>Comments by readers</article-title>
        <year>1947</year>
        <volume>106</volume>
        <issue>2742</issue>
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        <source id="782">Science Magazine</source>
        <abbrev>Science</abbrev>
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