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Crowd-Sourcing the E. Coli O104:H4 Outbreak
ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2011) — Ten variants of the deadly Escherichia coli strain that hit Germany in May 2011 have been sequenced across the world. The unprecedented level of collaboration across the scientific community should give insight into how the outbreak arose, says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference 2011.
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