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Characterisation of atypical enteropathogenic E. coli strains of clinical origin

BACKGROUND: Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) is a prominent cause of diarrhoea, and is characterised in part by its carriage of a pathogenicity island: the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE). EPEC is divided into two subtypes according to the presence of bundle-forming pili (BFP), a fimbrial adhes...

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Autores principales: Tennant, Sharon M, Tauschek, Marija, Azzopardi, Kristy, Bigham, Andrea, Bennett-Wood, Vicki, Hartland, Elizabeth L, Qi, Weihong, Whittam, Thomas S, Robins-Browne, Roy M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19490652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-117