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Toxin genes on pathogenicity islands: impact for microbial evolution.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Oct 2000
Dobrindt U, Janke B, Piechaczek K, Nagy G, Ziebuhr W, Fischer G, Schierhorn A, Hecker M, Blum-Oehler G, Hacker J
Abstract excerpt
Toxin-specific genes are often located on mobile genetic elements such as phages, plasmids and pathogenicity islands (PAIs). The uropathogenic E. coli strain 536 carries two alpha-hemolysin gene clusters, which are part of the pathogenicity islands I536 and II536, respectively. Using different genetic techniques, two additional PAIs were identified in the genome of the E. coli strain 536, and it is likely that...
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