title: Pathogen: environmental/food/other sample from Escherichia coli
organism: Escherichia coli O111 str. RM9322
description: The rise in foodborne-related outbreaks of non O157 shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STECs) emphasizes the importance of developing improved methods to rapidly detect and characterize STECs. The major serovars of STEC associated with illness have been O26, O111, O103, O121, O43, and O145, accounting for 25-50% of human illness caused by STECs and, in some cases, severe illness comparable to illness caused by E. coli O157:H7. Sequencing of STECs from the agriculturally important region of the California central coast will address the diversity of genomic content and physiology of STECs compared to E. coli O157.
attributes.tag: strain
attributes.value: RM9322
attributes.tag: collected_by
attributes.value: USDA ARS PSM
attributes.tag: collection_date
attributes.value: 2009-07
attributes.tag: geo_loc_name
attributes.value: USA: Salinas, California
attributes.tag: isolation_source
attributes.value: Creek
attributes.tag: lat_lon
attributes.value: 36.68 N 121.67 W
attributes.tag: pathotype
attributes.value: STEC
attributes.tag: serotype
attributes.value: O111
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: Pathogen.env