A Mosaic Pathogenicity Island Made Up of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement and a Pathogenicity Island of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Is Frequently Present in Attaching and Effacing E . coli

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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorragic E. coli (EHEC) possess a pathogenicity island (PAI), termed the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), which confers the capability to cause the characteristic attaching and effacing lesions of the brush border. Due to this common property, these organisms are also termed attaching and effacing E. coli (AEEC). Sequencing of the EHEC O157 genome recently...

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