Electronic supplementary material Additional file 1: The 38 sequenced Acinetobacter strains used in this study. (PDF 130 KB) Additional file 2: Phylogenetic tree based on 819 core CDSs (without recombination filtering). (PDF 116 KB) Additional file 3: Phylogenetic tree based on 42 ribosomal genes (Jolley et al. ) [15]. (PDF 115 KB) Additional file 4: K-string analysis of the 38 Acinetobacter strains used in

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