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Molecular Evolutionary Relationships of Enteroinvasive <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Shigella</i> spp
21 Aug 2004
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Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC), a distinctive pathogenic form of E. coli causing dysentery, is similar in many properties to bacteria placed in the four species of Shigella. Shigella has been separated as a genus but in fact comprises several clones of E. coli. The evolutionary relationships of 32 EIEC strains of 12 serotypes have been determined by sequencing of four housekeeping genes and two plasmid...
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