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Deletion of pic results in decreased virulence for a clinical isolate of Shigella flexneri 2a from China

BACKGROUND: Shigella is a major pathogen responsible for bacillary dysentery, a severe form of shigellosis. Severity of the disease depends on the virulence of the infecting strain. Shigella pathogenicity is a multi-gene phenomenon, involving the participation of genes on an unstable large virulence...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Junqi, Qian, Lisheng, Wu, Yang, Cai, Xia, Li, Xueping, Cheng, Xunjia, Qu, Di
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-31