G. Trueba

Genomovar-level resolution reveals rapid pathotype switching and genomovar-specific disease potential in diarrheagenic Escherichia coli populations in northern Ecuador

These findings demonstrate that, although there seems to be within-lineage (phylogroup) conservation of virulence, pathotype identity is a labile state defined by horizontally acquired virulence genes at the genomovar level, and that the genomovar framework provides a biologically meaningful unit for linking intra-spec...