Differences in Levels of Secreted Locus of Enterocyte Effacement Proteins between Human Disease-Associated and Bovine Escherichia coli O157

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Ongoing extensive epidemiological studies of verotoxin-carrying Escherichia coli O157 (stx(+) eae(+)) have shown this bacterial pathogen to be common in cattle herds in the United States and the United Kingdom. However, the incidence of disease in humans due to this pathogen is still very low. This study set out to investigate if there is a difference between strains isolated from human disease cases and those...