Comparative analysis of super-shedder strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 reveals distinctive genomic features and a strongly aggregative adherent phenotype on bovine rectoanal junction squamous epithelial cells

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Cote, Rebecca ^a,b   Katani, Robab ^a   Moreau, Matthew R ^a   Kudva, Indira T ^c   Arthur, Terrance M ^d   DebRoy, Chitrita ^a   Mwangi, Michael M ^a,b   Albert, Istvan ^a,b   Garay, Juan Antonio Raygoza ^a,b   Li, Lingling ^a   Brandl, Maria T ^e   Carter, Michelle Q ^e   Kapur, Vivek ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^d U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM CELL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LARGE INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; RECTUM; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; INTESTINE, LARGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECTUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84922656344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116743     Document Type: Article

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