[Well-known and new variants of pathogenic Escherichia coli as a consequence of the plastic genome].

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E. coli is a diverse bacterial species encompassing commensal as well as intestinal and extraintestinal pathogenic strains. The ability to adapt to so many different niches in the host organism is determined by the extreme genomic plasticity of E. coli. The genetic diversity is due to a complex phylogenetic structure in which besides the well-known main groups A, B1, B2 and D, four new groups, C, E, F and Clad I,...

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