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Involvement of surface polysaccharides in the organic acid resistance of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 2002
Barua Soumitra, Yamashino Takafumi, Hasegawa Tadao, Yokoyama Keiko, Torii Keizo, Ohta Michio
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In general, wild Escherichia coli strains can grow effectively under moderately acidic organic acid-rich conditions. We found that the Shiga Toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157:H7 NGY9 grows more quickly than a K-12 strain in Luria-Bertani (LB)-2-morpholinoethanesulphonic acid (MES) broth supplem...
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