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Clade analysis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7/H- strains and hierarchy of their phylogenetic relationships.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2012
Yokoyama Eiji, Hirai Shinichiro, Hashimoto Ruiko, Uchimura Masako
Abstract excerpt
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7/H-(O157) strains isolated in Chiba prefecture, Japan, during 2002-2009 were studied by lineage, subgroup, cluster, and clade analysis. Lineage analysis of 470 O157 strains with no known epidemiological relationships using lineage specific polymorphism assay-6 showed that there were 242 lineage I strains, 160 lineage I/II strains, 67 lineage II strains, and 1...
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