TY - JOUR AU - Cordoni, Guido AU - Woodward, Martin J. AU - Wu, Huihai AU - Alanazi, Mishaal AU - Wallis, Tim AU - La Ragione, Roberto M. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/22 TI - Comparative genomics of European avian pathogenic E. Coli (APEC) JO - BMC Genomics SP - 960 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) causes colibacillosis, which results in significant economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. However, the diversity between isolates remains poorly understood. Here, a total of 272 APEC isolates collected from the United Kingdom (UK), Italy and Germany were characterised using multiplex polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) targeting 22 equally weighted factors covering virulence genes, R-type and phylogroup. Following these analysis, 95 of the selected strains were further analysed using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3289-7 DO - 10.1186/s12864-016-3289-7 ID - Cordoni2016 ER -