Reply to Guy et al.: Support for a bottleneck in the 2011 Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages

  Grad, Yonatan H ^a,b   Lipsitch, Marc ^b   Griggs, Allison D ^c   Haas, Brian J ^c   Shea, Terrance P ^c   McCowan, Caryn ^c   Montmayeur, Anna ^c   FitzGerald, Michael ^c   Wortman, Jennifer R ^c   Krogfelt, Karen A ^d   Bingen, Edouard ^e,f   Weill, François Xavier ^g   Tietze, Erhard ^h   Flieger, Antje ^h   Lander, Eric S ^c,i   Nusbaum, Chad ^c   Birren, Bruce W ^c   Hung, Deborah T ^a,c,i,j   Hanage, William P ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^h ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXPOSURE; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; LETTER; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84871831847     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209419110     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. Grad YH, et al. (2012) Genomic epidemiology of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreaks in Europe, 2011. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109(8):3065-3070.
2. Guy L, et al. (2012) Genomic diversity of the 2011 European outbreaks of Escherichia coli O104:H4. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:E3627-E3628.
3. Buchholz U, et al. (2011) German outbreak of Escherichia coli O104:H4 associated with sprouts. N Engl J Med 365(19):1763-1770.
4. Frank C, et al.; HUS Investigation Team (2011) Epidemic profile of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany. N Engl J Med 365(19):1771-1780.