A Geographically Widespread Outbreak Investigation and Development of a Rapid Screening Method Using Whole Genome Sequences of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O121

A Geographically Widespread Outbreak Investigation and Development of a Rapid Screening Method Using Whole Genome Sequences of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O121

From 2014 to 2015, we investigated a suspected nationwide outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroup O121. However, similar pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles and the lack of epidemiological links between the isolates made detection of the outbreak difficult. To elucidate...

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Main Authors: Ken-ichi Lee, Tomoko Morita-Ishihara, Sunao Iyoda, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Makoto Kuroda, Makoto Ohnishi, EHEC Working Group in Japan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
molecular typing
diarrhea
phylogeny enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
disease outbreak
single nucleotide polymorphism
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00701/full

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