Reply to Guy et al.: Support for a bottleneck in the 2011 Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany.

Yonatan H Grad (1) , Marc Lipsitch (2) , Allison D Griggs (3) , Brian J Haas (3) , Terrance P Shea (3) , Caryn Mccowan (3) , Anna Montmayeur (3) , Michael Fitzgerald (3) , Jennifer R Wortman (3) , Karen A Krogfelt (4) , Edouard Bingen (5, 6) , François-Xavier Weill (7) , Erhard Tietze (8) , Antje Flieger (8) , Eric S Lander (3, 9, 10) , Chad Nusbaum (3) , Bruce W Birren (3) , Deborah T Hung (11, 1, 3, 10) , William P Hanage

1 Brigham and Women's Hospital [Boston]
2 Harvard School of Public Health
3 BROAD INSTITUTE - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
4 Statens Serum Institut [Copenhagen]
5 AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris]
6 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
7 BPE - Bactéries pathogènes entériques
8 RKI - Robert Koch Institute [Berlin]
9 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
11 Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston]

Comment on: Genomic diversity of the 2011 European outbreaks of Escherichia coli O104:H4. [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012]

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Yonatan H Grad, Marc Lipsitch, Allison D Griggs, Brian J Haas, Terrance P Shea, et al.. Reply to Guy et al.: Support for a bottleneck in the 2011 Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012, 109 (52), pp.E3629-30. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1209419110⟩. ⟨pasteur-01111336⟩