Genome sequence analyses of two isolates from the recent Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany reveal the emergence of a new pathotype: Entero-Aggregative-Haemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EAHEC)

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 193, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 883-891

  Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta ^a   Thürmer, Andrea ^a   Schuldes, Jörg ^a   Leimbach, Andreas ^a   Liesegang, Heiko ^a   Meyer, Frauke Dorothee ^a   Boelter, Jürgen ^b   Petersen, Heiko ^c   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a   Daniel, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

^c Abt Molekulare Erregerdiagnostik   (Germany)

Author keywords

EAHEC; EHEC outbreak; Genome evolution; Genome sequencing; Pathotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERO AGGREGATIVE HEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERMANY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAA;

EID: 82355173436     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-011-0725-6     Document Type: Article

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