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Genetic differentiation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 clades associated with human disease by real-time PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2008
Riordan James T, Viswanath Sandeep B, Manning Shannon D, Whittam Thomas S
Abstract excerpt
The rapid and accurate identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains is central to reducing the impact of outbreaks. A real-time PCR-based approach to differentiating major outbreak lineages of O157 with novel single-nucleotide polymorphisms is described. The utility of this method is in detection of hypervirulent strains in cases of clinical disease.
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