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Variation in virulence among clades of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with disease outbreaks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Mar 2008
Manning Shannon D, Motiwala Alifiya S, Springman A Cody, Qi Weihong, Lacher David W, Ouellette Lindsey M, Mladonicky Janice M, Somsel Patricia, Rudrik James T, Dietrich Stephen E, Zhang Wei, Swaminathan Bala, Alland David, Whittam Thomas S
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity are poorly understood. Several recent outbreaks involving O157 contamination of fresh produce...
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