Genomic diversity of the 2011 European outbreaks of Escherichia coli O104:H4

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

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages

  Guy, Lionel ^a   Jernberg, Cecilia ^b   Ivarsson, Sofie ^b   Hedenström, Ingela ^b   Engstrand, Lars ^a,c   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL EVOLUTION; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPTOM;

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

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84871840312     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206246110     Document Type: Letter

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