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Enhanced CXC chemokine responses of human colonic epithelial cells to locus of enterocyte effacement-negative shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli.
Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 2003
Rogers Trisha J, Paton Adrienne W, McColl Shaun R, Paton James C
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There is increasing evidence that by facilitating translocation of Shiga toxin (Stx) across the intestinal epithelium and by transporting bound toxin to remote sites such as the renal endothelium, polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) play a key role in the pathogenesis of Shiga-toxigenic Escherich...
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