Altruism of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: recent hypothesis versus experimental results

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) may cause bloody diarrhea and hemorrhagic colitis (HC), with subsequent systemic disease. Since genes coding for Shiga toxins (stx genes) are located on lambdoid prophages, their effective production occurs only after prophage induction. Such induction a...

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Autores principales: Łoś, Joanna M., Łoś, Marcin, Węgrzyn, Alicja, Węgrzyn, Grzegorz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
Materias:
Microbiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316482
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2012.00166

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316482
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2012.00166

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