Genomic analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from patients and asymptomatic food handlers in Japan

Hiroaki Baba; Hajime Kanamori; Hayami Kudo; Yasutoshi Kuroki; Seiya Higashi; Kentaro Oka; Motomichi Takahashi; Makiko Yoshida; Kengo Oshima; Tetsuji Aoyagi; Koichi Tokuda; Mitsuo Kaku

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225340

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Genomic analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from patients and asymptomatic food handlers in Japan

Hiroaki Baba ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroaki Baba, Hajime Kanamori

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

* E-mail: hbaba48@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Hajime Kanamori ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroaki Baba, Hajime Kanamori

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Hayami Kudo,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Yasutoshi Kuroki,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Seiya Higashi,

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Kentaro Oka,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Motomichi Takahashi,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Makiko Yoshida,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Kengo Oshima,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Tetsuji Aoyagi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Koichi Tokuda,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Mitsuo Kaku

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Genomic analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from patients and asymptomatic food handlers in Japan

Hiroaki Baba,
Hajime Kanamori,
Hayami Kudo,
Yasutoshi Kuroki,
Seiya Higashi,
Kentaro Oka,
Motomichi Takahashi,
Makiko Yoshida,
Kengo Oshima,
Tetsuji Aoyagi

Published: November 19, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225340

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