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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
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* Corresponding author: Astrid Bethe bethe.astrid@vetmed.fu-berlin.de
1 Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Veterinary Faculty, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2 Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Seestrasse 55, D-16868 Wusterhausen, Germany
3 Institute for Hygiene and the National Consulting Laboratory for Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome, University of Münster, Germany
Gut Pathogens 2011, 3:17 doi:10.1186/1757-4749-3-17
Published: 3 November 2011Additional files
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Maximum Parsimony based clustering analysis of the concatenated sequences of the 7 genes used for MLST. Reference scale of tree is equal to 1 nucleotide substitution. Maximum Parsimony based clustering analysis of the concatenated sequences of the 7 genes used for MLST. Reference scale of tree is equal to 1 nucleotide substitution.
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Characteristics of strains selected for cell adhesion assay (n = 27) and reference strains.
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