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Carriage of Shiga toxin phage profoundly affects Escherichia coli gene expression and carbon source utilization

BACKGROUND: Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (E. coli) are intestinal pathogenic bacteria that cause life-threatening disease in humans. Their cardinal virulence factor is Shiga toxin (Stx), which is encoded on lambdoid phages integrated in the chromosome. Stx phages can infect and lysogenize susc...

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Autores principales: Berger, Petya, Kouzel, Ivan U., Berger, Michael, Haarmann, Nadja, Dobrindt, Ulrich, Koudelka, Gerald B., Mellmann, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31208335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5892-x