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The authors thank the technical staff and directors in the 38 participating facilities in Japan. The authors also express their appreciation to Tse Hsien Koh (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore) and Jean B. Patel (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA) for critical reading and helpful suggestions.

Whole-genome sequence data deposition: Raw draft genome sequence reads of E. coli TUM17668 were deposited in the DDBJ Sequence Read Archive under accession no. BDSB01000001

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