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Genome based phylogeny and comparative genomic analysis of intra-mammary pathogenic Escherichia coli.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Richards Vincent P, Lefébure Tristan, Pavinski Bitar Paulina D, Dogan Belgin, Simpson Kenneth W, Schukken Ynte H, Stanhope Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli is an important cause of bovine mastitis and can cause both severe inflammation with a short-term transient infection, as well as less severe, but more chronic inflammation and infection persistence. E. coli is a highly diverse organism that has been classified into a number of different pathotypes or pathovars, and mammary pathogenic E. coli (MPEC) has been proposed as a new such pathotype. The...
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