SCIENTISTS FIND GENE MAP FOR E. COLI FAMILY BREAKTHROUGH MAY BRING VACCINES.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: September 5, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

E. coli, the bacteria family that prompted the nation's largest hamburger recall, has been genetically decoded by researchers, who say the discovery could lead to new drugs or even vaccines against certain food poisonings.

A team led by Frederick Blattner, a University of Wisconsin, Madison, geneticist, have sequenced and mapped the 4,288 genes contained in the 4.6 million base pairs of DNA in a common laboratory strain of E. coli.

Experts said the new map is...

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