Corrigendum: , an Evolutionary Dead-End Pathogen.

[This corrects the article on p. 1054 in vol. 8, PMID: 28649238.

, an Evolutionary Dead-End Pathogen.

Full genome sequences of 20 strains of , the etiological agent of blackleg of cattle and sheep, isolated from four different continents over a period of 64 years (1951-2015) were determined and analyzed. The study reveals that the genome of the species is highly homogeneous compared to the closely related species , a widespread pathogen that affects human and many animal species. Analysis of the CRISPR locus is sufficient to differentiate most strains and is the most heterogenous region in the genome, containing in total 187 different spacer elements that are distributed as 30 - 77 copies in the various strains.