Genome sequence of Escherichia coli O157: H7 strain 2886-75, associated with the first reported case of human infection in the United States

  • Fatemeh Sanjar
  • , Tracy H. Hazen
  • , Sadiq M. Shah
  • , Sara S.K. Koenig
  • , Sonia Agrawal
  • , Sean Daugherty
  • , Lisa Sadzewicz
  • , Luke J. Tallon
  • , Mark K. Mammel
  • , Peter Feng
  • , Robert Soderlund
  • , Phillip I. Tarr
  • , Chitrita DebRoy
  • , Edward G. Dudley
  • , Thomas A. Cebula
  • , Jacques Ravel
  • , Claire M. Fraser
  • , David A. Rasko
  • , Mark Eppinger

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Abstract

First identified in 1982 as a human pathogen, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli of the O157:H7 serotype is a major cause of food-borne acquired human infections. Here, we report the genome sequence of the first known strain of this serotype isolated in the United States.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere01120-13
JournalGenome Announcements
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

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