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Isolation from a sheep of an attaching and effacing Escherichia coli O115:H- with a novel combination of virulence factors.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Dec 2002
Cookson Adrian L, Hayes Christine M, Pearson Geoffrey R, Roe John M, Wales Andrew D, Woodward Martin J
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Attaching and effacing (AE) lesions were observed in the caecum, proximal colon and rectum of one of four lambs experimentally inoculated at 6 weeks of age with Escherichia coli O157:H7. However, the attached bacteria did not immunostain with O157-specific antiserum. Subsequent bacteriological analysis of samples from this animal yielded two E. coli O115:H(-) strains, one from the colon (CO) and one from the...
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