The Sanger Institute was funded to perform comparative sequencing of five Escherichia coli and Shigella strains in collaboration with Dr. Christoph Tang of the Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College, London, Prof. Mark Pallen and Dr. Ian Henderson of the Division of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Claude Parsot and Dr. Phillipe Sansonetti of the Unite de Pathologie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, France, Dr. Gadi Frankel, of the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London, and Dr. Stuart Knutton of the Institute of Child Health, Birmingham.
These strains included Shigella dysenteriae M131649 (M131). This project is still in finishing/gap closure.
