The population genetics of pathogenic Escherichia coli

E Denamur, O Clermont, S Bonacorsi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

Environmental Escherichia coli: ecology and public health implications—a review

J Jang, HG Hur, MJ Sadowsky… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Escherichia coli is classified as a rod‐shaped, Gram‐negative bacterium in the family
Enterobacteriaceae. The bacterium mainly inhabits the lower intestinal tract of warm …

The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

Z Zhou, NF Alikhan, K Mohamed, Y Fan… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries

C Jain, LM Rodriguez-R, AM Phillippy… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A fundamental question in microbiology is whether there is continuum of genetic diversity
among genomes, or clear species boundaries prevail instead. Whole-genome similarity …

High proportions of bacteria and archaea across most biomes remain uncultured

AD Steen, A Crits-Christoph, P Carini… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A recent paper by Martiny argues that “high proportions” of bacteria in diverse Earth
environments have been cultured. Here we reanalyze a portion of the data in that paper, and …

ClermonTyping: an easy-to-use and accurate in silico method for Escherichia genus strain phylotyping

J Beghain, A Bridier-Nahmias… - Microbial …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
The genus Escherichia is composed of Escherichia albertii, E. fergusonii, five cryptic
Escherichia clades and E. coli sensu stricto. Furthermore, the E. coli species can be divided …

The Clermont Escherichia coli phylo‐typing method revisited: improvement of specificity and detection of new phylo‐groups

O Clermont, JK Christenson… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is extensive genetic substructure within the species E scherichia coli. In 2000 a simple
triplex PCR method was described by C lermont and colleagues that enables an E. coli …

[PDF][PDF] Bypassing cultivation to identify bacterial species

LM Rodriguez-R, KT Konstantinidis - Microbe, 2014 - researchgate.net
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Phylogenetic background and habitat drive the genetic diversification of Escherichia coli

M Touchon, A Perrin, JAM De Sousa, B Vangchhia… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Escherichia coli is mostly a commensal of birds and mammals, including humans, where it
can act as an opportunistic pathogen. It is also found in water and sediments. We …

Automated reconstruction of whole-genome phylogenies from short-sequence reads

F Bertels, OK Silander, M Pachkov… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Studies of microbial evolutionary dynamics are being transformed by the availability of
affordable high-throughput sequencing technologies, which allow whole-genome …