DNA Sequencing Data Reveals New Hybrid E. Coli Strain Is Cause Of German Outbreak

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

Life Technologies Corporation today announced that preliminary data from DNA sequencing performed in cooperation with the University Hospital Muenster, Germany, on the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM(TM)) strongly suggests that the bacterium at the root of the deadly outbreak in Germany is a new hybrid type of pathogenic E. coli strains.  read more

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