Comparative genomics of recent shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4: Short-term evolution of an emerging pathogen

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grad, Yonatan H ^a,b   Godfrey, Paul ^c   Cerquiera, Gustavo C ^c   Mariani Kurkdjian, Patricia ^d   Gouali, Malika ^e   Bingen, Edouard ^d,f   Shea, Terrence P ^c   Haas, Brian J ^c   Griggs, Allison ^c   Young, Sarah ^c   Zeng, Qiandong ^c   Lipsitch, Marc ^b   Waldor, Matthew K ^a,g   Weill, François Xavier ^e   Wortman, Jennifer R ^c   Hanage, William P ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PLASMID DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GYRA GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STX2 GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EUROPE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874027598     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00452-12     Document Type: Article

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