Persistence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Its Mutants in Soils

• Jincai Ma,

  Affiliations United States Salinity Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• A. Mark Ibekwe ,

  * E-mail: Mark.Ibekwe@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation United States Salinity Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Xuan Yi,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Haizhen Wang,

  Affiliations United States Salinity Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Subtropical Soil and Plant Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Akihiro Yamazaki,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• David E. Crowley,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Ching-Hong Yang

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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