Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 subclade 8b strains in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, produced larger amounts of Shiga toxin 2 than strains in subclade 8a and other clades

• Shinichiro Hirai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.hri10@pref.chiba.lg.jp

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-2518

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• Eiji Yokoyama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan

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• Taku Wakui,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan

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• Taichiro Ishige,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masaki Nakamura

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan

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