Researchers, companies quick to crack E. coli case - FierceBiotech Research: "'Working with OpGen, Optical Mapping allowed us to quickly compare multiple isolates from this outbreak to demonstrate convincingly the clonality of the ongoing outbreak here in Germany,' University Hospital's Harmsen said in the release.
Other groups claiming some credit include The Genome Analysis Centre in the UK., which 'crowd-sourced' a genome analysis through scientific cooperation throughout Europe.
And, according to Wall Street Journal editorial writer Anne Jolis, all this science is well and good, but the real culprit is an anti-science attitude in Europe. The origin of the E. coli outbreak came from tainted sprouts in an organic farm. In other words, it wasn't anything a little irradiation couldn't have cured."
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