Refining the pathovar paradigm via phylogenomics of the attaching and effacing Escherichia coli.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on July 15, 2013

Authors

Tracy H Hazen1, Jason W Sahl, Claire M Fraser, Michael S Donnenberg, Flemming Scheutz, David A Rasko

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1: Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

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