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Emergence of New ST301 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Clones Harboring Extra-Intestinal Virulence Traits in Europe
- Aurélie Cointe,
- Etienne Bizot,
- Sabine Delannoy,
- Patrick Fach,
- Philippe Bidet,
- André Birgy,
- François-Xavier Weill,
- Sophie Lefèvre,
- Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian and
- Stéphane Bonacorsi
O80:H2 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of sequence type ST301 is one of the main serotypes causing European hemolytic and uremic syndrome, but also invasive infections, due to extra-intestinal virulence factors (VFs). Here, we determined wh...