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Rates of evolutionary change of resident Escherichia coli O157:H7 differ within the same ecological niche.
BMC genomics - 7 Apr 2022
Weinroth Margaret D, Clawson Michael L, Arthur Terrance M, Wells James E, Brichta-Harhay Dayna M, Strachan Norval, Bono James L
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BACKGROUND: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 is a pathogen known to reside in cattle feedlots. This retrospective study examined 181 STEC O157:H7 strains collected over 23 years from a closed-system feedlot. All strains were subjected to short-read sequencing, with a subset of 36 also subjected to long-read sequencing. RESULTS: Over 96% of the strains fell into four phylogenetically distinct...
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