| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - We could find no sign of the LEE pathogenicity island (associated with enterohemorrhagic E. coli), so at this stage it does seem that it is mainly a matter of acquiring the Shiga toxin via phage, coupled with the acquisition of one or two plasmids encoding drug resistance which are common in E. coli and other Enterobacteriaceae (see this post).
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