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Colonization of the respiratory tract by a virulent strain of avian Escherichia coli requires carriage of a conjugative plasmid.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2000
Ginns C A, Benham M L, Adams L M, Whithear K G, Bettelheim K A, Crabb B S, Browning G F
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The E3 strain of E. coli was isolated in an outbreak of respiratory disease in broiler chickens, and experimental aerosol exposure of chickens to this strain induced disease similar to that seen in the field. In order to establish whether the virulent phenotype of this strain was associated with carriage of particular plasmids, four plasmid-cured derivatives, each lacking two or more of the plasmids carried by...
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