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IS629 presence/absence in the stepwise evolutionary model of E. coli O157:H7 from ancestral O55:H7 strains (representation modified from reference 4). The circles represent the different clonal complexes. IS629 presence and absence is indicated in bold by +IS629 and −IS629, respectively. Strains belonging to hypothetical CC A3 have not yet been isolated.
