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Derivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from its O55:H7 precursor.
PloS one - 14 Jan 2010
Zhou Zhemin, Li Xiaomin, Liu Bin, Beutin Lothar, Xu Jianguo, Ren Yan, Feng Lu, Lan Ruiting, Reeves Peter R, Wang Lei
Abstract excerpt
There are 29 E. coli genome sequences available, mostly related to studies of species diversity or mode of pathogenicity, including two genomes of the well-known O157:H7 clone. However, there have been no genome studies of closely related clones aimed at exposing the details of evolutionary change. Here we sequenced the genome of an O55:H7 strain, closely related to the major pathogenic O157:H7 clone, with...
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