One Health Genomic Surveillance of Escherichia coli Demonstrates Distinct Lineages and Mobile Genetic Elements in Isolates from Humans versus Livestock

The increasing prevalence of E. coli bloodstream infections is a serious public health problem. We used genomic epidemiology in a One Health study conducted in the East of England to examine putative sources of E. coli associated with serious human disease. E. coli from 1,517 patients with bloodstre...

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Main Authors: Catherine Ludden, Kathy E. Raven, Dorota Jamrozy, Theodore Gouliouris, Beth Blane, Francesc Coll, Marcus de Goffau, Plamena Naydenova, Carolyne Horner, Juan Hernandez-Garcia, Paul Wood, Nazreen Hadjirin, Milorad Radakovic, Nicholas M. Brown, Mark Holmes, Julian Parkhill, Sharon J. Peacock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-01-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02693-18