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No evidence of the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strain or enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) found in cattle faeces in northern Germany, the hotspot of the 2011 HUS outbreak area

BACKGROUND: Ruminants, in particular bovines, are the primary reservoir of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), but whole genome analyses of the current German ESBL-producing O104:H4 outbreak strain of sequence type (ST) 678 showed this strain to be highly similar to enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC...

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Autores principales: Wieler, Lothar H, Semmler, Torsten, Eichhorn, Inga, Antao, Esther M, Kinnemann, Bianca, Geue, Lutz, Karch, Helge, Guenther, Sebastian, Bethe, Astrid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3227623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22051440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-3-17