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High diversity in the regulatory region of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages

BACKGROUND: Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is an emerging health challenge worldwide and outbreaks caused by this pathogen poses a serious public health concern. Shiga toxin (Stx) is the major virulence factor of EHEC, and the stx genes are carried by temperate bacteriophages (Stx phages)...

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Autores principales: Fagerlund, Annette, Aspholm, Marina, Węgrzyn, Grzegorz, Lindbäck, Toril
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8951638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35331132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08428-5