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HEp-2 cell adherence, actin aggregation, and intimin types of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy infants in Germany and Australia.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jul 2003
Beutin Lothar, Marchés Olivier, Bettelheim Karl A, Gleier Kerstin, Zimmermann Sonja, Schmidt Herbert, Oswald Eric
Abstract excerpt
Fecal samples from healthy children under 2 years of age living in Berlin, Germany (205 infants), and Melbourne, Australia (184 infants), were investigated for the presence of attaching and effacing (AE) Escherichia coli (AEEC) strains by screening for eae (intimin) genes. Twenty-seven AEEC strains were isolated from 14 children (7.6%) from Melbourne and from 12 children (5.9%) from Berlin. The 27 AEEC strains...
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