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Emerging enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains?
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2004
Gomes Tânia A T, Irino Kinue, Girão Dennys M, Girão Valéria B C, Guth Beatriz E C, Vaz Tânia M I, Moreira Fabiana C, Chinarelli Silvia H, Vieira Mônica A M
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli strains of nonenteropathogenic serogroups carrying eae but lacking the enteropathogenic E. coli adherence factor plasmid and Shiga toxin DNA probe sequences were isolated from patients (children, adults, and AIDS patients) with and without diarrhea in Brazil. Although diverse in phenotype and genotype, some strains are potentially diarrheagenic.
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