Abstract
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes severe illness in humans, including hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. A parallel evolutionary model was proposed in which E. coli strains of distinct phylogenies independently integrate Shiga toxin-encoding genes and evolve into STEC. We report the draft genomes of two emerging non-O157 STEC strains.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | e00200-13 |
| Journal | Genome Announcements |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics