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Are Escherichia coli Pathotypes Still Relevant in the Era of Whole-Genome Sequencing?
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2016
Robins-Browne Roy M, Holt Kathryn E, Ingle Danielle J, Hocking Dianna M, Yang Ji, Tauschek Marija
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The empirical and pragmatic nature of diagnostic microbiology has given rise to several different schemes to subtype E.coli, including biotyping, serotyping, and pathotyping. These schemes have proved invaluable in identifying and tracking outbreaks, and for prognostication in individual cases of infection, but they are imprecise and potentially misleading due to the malleability and continuous evolution of E....
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