Postgenomics Characterization of an Essential Genetic Determinant of Mammary Pathogenic Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli are major bacterial pathogens causing bovine mastitis, a disease of great economic impact on dairy production worldwide. This work aimed to study the virulence determinants of mammary pathogenic E. coli (MPEC). By whole-genome sequencing analysis of 40 MPEC and 22 environmental (“da...

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Main Authors: Shlomo E. Blum, Robert J. Goldstone, James P. R. Connolly, Maryline Répéérant-Ferter, Pierre Germon, Neil F. Inglis, Oleg Krifucks, Shubham Mathur, Erin Manson, Kevin Mclean, Pascal Rainard, Andrew J. Roe, Gabriel Leitner, David G. E. Smith, Rino Rappuoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-04-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/9/2/e00423-18