Prophages integrating into prophages: A mechanism to accumulate type III secretion effector genes and duplicate Shiga toxin-encoding prophages in Escherichia coli

• Keiji Nakamura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8500-9359

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• Yoshitoshi Ogura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Gotoh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Tetsuya Hayashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thayash@bact.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6366-7177

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