| Entry | T02066 | 
| Org code | elr | 
| Name | Escherichia coli O55:H7 RM12579 (EPEC) | 
| Annotation | yes | 
| Taxonomy | TAX: 1048689 | 
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli O55:H7 | 
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601] KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
 KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
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| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000245515.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 68245
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| Keywords | Human pathogen | 
| Disease | H00278  Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infection | 
| Comment | Multidrug-resistant. Isolated in December 1974 from the urine of a child less than 5 years old by the California Department of Public Health.
 
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| Chromosome | Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003109 | 
| Length | 5263980 | 
| Plasmid | p12579_1; Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003110 | 
| Length | 94015 | 
| Plasmid | p12579_2; Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003111 | 
| Length | 66078 | 
| Plasmid | p12579_3; Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003112 | 
| Length | 12068 | 
| Plasmid | p12579_4; Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003113 | 
| Length | 6211 | 
| Plasmid | p12579_5; Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003114 | 
| Length | 5954 | 
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides:       5448306 Number of protein genes:        5128
 Number of RNA genes:             127
 
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| Created | 2012 | 
| Reference | PMID: 22328665 | 
| Authors | Kyle JL, Cummings CA, Parker CT, Quinones B, Vatta P, Newton E, Huynh S, Swimley M, Degoricija L, Barker M, et al. | 
| Title | Escherichia coli serotype O55:H7 diversity supports parallel acquisition of bacteriophage at Shiga toxin phage insertion sites during evolution of the O157:H7 lineage. | 
| Journal | J Bacteriol 194:1885-96 (2012) DOI: 10.1128/JB.00120-12
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