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Up-regulation of both intimin and eae-independent adherence of shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli O157 by ler and phenotypic impact of a naturally occurring ler mutation.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 2000
Ogierman M A, Paton A W, Paton J C
Abstract excerpt
Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are important human pathogens which are capable of causing diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and the potentially fatal hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). An important virulence trait of certain STEC strains, such as those belonging to serogroup O157, is the capacity to produce attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on enterocytes, a property encoded by the locus for...
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