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Escherichia coli Genetics

Scientists at Norwegian Institute of Public Health report research in Escherichia coli genetics

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 20th, 2007

A report, "Study of polymorphic variable-number of tandem repeats loci in the ECOR collection and in a set of pathogenic Escherichia coli and Shigella isolates for use in a genotyping assay," is newly published data in Journal of Microbiological Methods. "The Escherichia coli (E. coli) reference collection, ECOR, consists of 72 strains that are representative of the genotypic diversity, as indexed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE), in the species as a whole. MLEE revealed 4 main phylogenetic groups designated A, B1, B2 and D," scientists in Oslo, Norway report.

"We present a study of the relationship between the ECOR strains as determined...

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