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Keywords: Adult; Antigens; Automation; Bacteria; Bioinformatics; Biology; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Diarrhea; Disease Outbreaks; DNA; DNA sequencing; E coli; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli - genetics; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli - pathogenicity; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli Infections - epidemiology; Evolution, Molecular; Gene mapping; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genomes; Genomics; Genomics - methods; Germany - epidemiology; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; Humans; Hygiene; Laboratories; Medicine; Outbreaks; Phylogeny; Plasmids; Prospective Studies; Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods; Serotypes; Shiga toxin; Time Factors; Toxins; Virulence; Virulence factors; Germany; United States--US; Maryland; California