Abstract
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High-Throughput Screening of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Pathogenic Genes via Pathway Enrichment and Operon Analysis
by Guangxin Yuan, Jia Fu, Liping An, Yan Zhuang, Yu Wang, Yunfeng Song, Zijing Qiao, Xiaolong Wang, Yufei Tian, Xiao Han, Peige Du, Guangyu Xu
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Background: About thirty thousand people globally die every day from infectious diarrhea, mostly caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7.
Methods: In order to search for clinical diagnostic biomarkers and novel drug targets for infectious diarrhea, we used a bibliometric method to collect pathogenic genes of E. coli O157:H7 and performed a functional analysis of the important pathogenic genes by pathway enrichment and operon analysis.
Results: We found 364 pathogenic genes which may be involved in infection with E. coli O157:H7 including 50 new specific pathogenic genes. It is possible that these newly found pathogenic genes will be of great importance in the treatment of E. coli O157:H7 infected diseases and the discovery of novel diagnostic biomarkers.
Conclusions: Our findings also lay a theoretical foundation for the control, diagnosis, and prognosis of pathogenic E. coli related diseases.
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2017.170314
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