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. 2011 Jul 20;6(7):e22751. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022751

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Mellmann et al.

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Major events relating to the outbreak epidemiology (below arrow) and those relating to genomic elucidation efforts (above arrow) are noted separately in the graph. Lines within the arrow indicate single day progression, with the date noted every 5th day. Events span from early May 2011 to early June 2011. Times are noted in Central European Time (CET). Abbreviations: BfR = Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany), BGI = Beijing Genomics Institute (People's Republic of China), ECDC = European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Sweden), HPA = Health Protection Agency (United Kingdom), HUS = hemolytic uremic syndrome, LT = Life Technologies Group, PGM™ = Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine™, RKI = Robert Koch Institute (Germany), ST = multilocus sequence type, UKE = University Hospital Hamburg (Germany), UKM = University Hospital Muenster (Germany), WGS = whole genome sequencing.