Response from Varani et al. to "Comment on 'the IS6 family, a clinically important group of insertion sequences including IS26' by Ruth M. Hall"
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The IS6 family of insertion sequences is a large but coherent group which was originally named to avoid confusion between a number of identical or nearly identical IS that were identified at about the same time and given different names (IS15D, IS26, IS46, IS1... ...
