Prospective genomic characterization of the german enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak by rapid next generation sequencing technology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Harmsen, Dag ^a   Cummings, Craig A ^b   Zentz, Emily B ^c   Leopold, Shana R ^a   Rico, Alain ^d   Prior, Karola ^a   Szczepanowski, Rafael ^a   Ji, Yongmei ^b   Zhang, Wenlan ^a   McLaughlin, Stephen F ^b   Henkhaus, John K ^c   Leopold, Benjamin ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Prager, Rita ^e   Brzoska, Pius M ^b   Moore, Richard L ^c   Guenther, Simone ^d   Rothberg, Jonathan M ^f   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^c Opgen   (United States)

^d Life Technologies   (Germany)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f Ion Torrent by Life Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104 H4; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ADULT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960609901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022751     Document Type: Article

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