Identification of a Novel Fimbrial Gene Cluster Related to Long Polar Fimbriae in Locus of Enterocyte Effacement-Negative Strains of Enterohemorrhagic <i>Escherichia coli</i>

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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a food-borne cause of bloody diarrhea and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in humans. Most strains of EHEC belong to a group of bacterial pathogens that cause distinctive lesions on the host intestine termed attaching-and-effacing (A/E) lesions. A/E strains of EHEC, including the predominant serotype, O157:H7, are responsible for the majority of HUS outbreaks...

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