Whole genome shotgun sequencing revealed highly polymorphic genome regions and genes in Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates collected from a single feedlot

• Xin Gao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Xun Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-374X

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• Xun Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Xun Yang

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• Lance Noll,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

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• Xiaorong Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

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• Jay Worley,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• Marc Allard,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• Eric Brown,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• T. G. Nagaraja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

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• Jianghong Meng

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jmeng@umd.edu

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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