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Examples include the use of DNA microarrays and sequencing to identify the causative agent for SARS (Wang et al.
Yersinia pestis , the causative agent of bubonic plague, harbors a large virulence plasmid that is essential for pathogenicity.
Today, an estimated one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis [ 1 2 ] , and tuberculosis causes about 2 million deaths annually [ 1 2 ] . Many aspects of the interactions between M. tuberculosis and its human host remain unclear.
The present study was observational and not randomized, and therefore associations should not be construed as causative.
It is possible, but unlikely, that one of the currently unknown alterations that we found in patients 05 and 06 will eventually be proven a causative mutation rather than a polymorphism.