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EC01 is most closely related to E. coli strain D7. A Kmer tree was constructed using the most closely related strains as well as a large sampling of E. coli strains from around the world and derived from different sources.
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The most closely related strain was E. coli strain D7 (NZ_CP010150.1), with 99.4% pairwise identity and 97.1% coverage (Fig. 1).