The rise in foodborne-related outbreaks of non O157 shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STECs) emphasizes the importance of developing improved methods to rapidly detect and characterize STECs. The major s
To predict the antigenic serogroup, we screened the assemblies against a custom reference database using Hamburger (Williams, 2021). Details of reference sequences and loci are supplied in the 'serogr