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Clonal Relatedness of EnterotoxigenicEscherichia coliStrains Isolated from a Cohort of Young Children in Guinea-Bissau
1 Jul 2004
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In a cohort study of 200 young children in Guinea-Bissau, it was previously found that some enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains were more pathogenic than others, depending on the type of toxin that they could produce, and that natural ETEC infections induced substantial protection against new infections with ETEC strains that had the same combination of toxins and colonization factors (CFs). We wanted...
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