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I see that the article has been renamed. I tried to choose the name that had the most acceptance in the scientific literature. What was the reasoning behind the move?
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Consolidate articles?
As I understand it, there really isn't any such fixed species as a verotoxin-producitng E. coli, rather any enterobacterium that acquires a lambdoid prophage with an Stx gene becomes verotoxin-producting. Shouldn't the following articles be combined under the heading of something like, "Pathogenic Escherichia coli":