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Identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 genomic regions conserved in strains with a genotype associated with human infection.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2007
Steele Marina, Ziebell Kim, Zhang Yongxiang, Benson Andrew, Konczy Paulina, Johnson Roger, Gannon Victor
Abstract excerpt
Beta-glucuronidase-negative, sorbitol-nonfermenting isolates of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 comprise part of a clone complex of related enterohemorrhagic E. coli isolates. High-resolution genotyping shows that the O157 populations have diverged into two different lineages that appear to have different ecologies. To identify genomic regions unique to the most common human-associated genotype,...
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