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SUBMITTER: Kim J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC23940 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim J J Nietfeldt J J Benson A K AK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19991101 23
Multilocus-genotyping methods have shown that Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a geographically disseminated clone. However, high-resolution methods such as pulse-field gel electrophoresis demonstrate significant genomic diversity among different isolates. To assess the genetic relationship of human and bovine isolates of E. coli O157:H7 in detail, we have developed an octamer-based genome-scanning methodology, which compares the distance between over-represented, strand-biased octamers that occur in ...[more]