Genomic comparison of Escherichia coli O104:H4 isolates from 2009 and 2011 reveals plasmid, and prophage heterogeneity, including shiga toxin encoding phage stx2.

In May of 2011, an enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain that had acquired a Shiga toxin 2-converting phage caused a large outbreak of bloody diarrhea in Europe which was notable for its high prevalence of hemolytic uremic syndrome cases. Several studies have described the genomic invent...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Sanaa A Ahmed, Joy Awosika, Carson Baldwin, Kimberly A Bishop-Lilly, Biswajit Biswas, Stacey Broomall, Patrick S G Chain, Olga Chertkov, Otar Chokoshvili, Susan Coyne, Karen Davenport, J Chris Detter, William Dorman, Tracy H Erkkila, Jason P Folster, Kenneth G Frey, Matroner George, Cheryl Gleasner, Matthew Henry, Karen K Hill, Kyle Hubbard, Joseph Insalaco, Shannon Johnson, Aaron Kitzmiller, Michael Krepps, Chien-Chi Lo, Truong Luu, Lauren A McNew, Timothy Minogue, Christine A Munk, Brian Osborne, Mohit Patel, Krista G Reitenga, C Nicole Rosenzweig, April Shea, Xiaohong Shen, Nancy Strockbine, Cheryl Tarr, Hazuki Teshima, Eric van Gieson, Kathleen Verratti, Mark Wolcott, Gary Xie, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Henry S Gibbons, Threat Characterization Consortium
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23133618/pdf/?tool=EBI