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Diversity of virulence patterns among shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from human clinical cases-need for more detailed diagnostics.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Apr 2005
Prager Rita, Annemüller Sigrid, Tschäpe Helmut
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Intestinal infections due to shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli bacteria (STEC) reveal a broad range of clinical symptoms and a large scale of virulence properties of the respective pathogens. The question whether all STEC variants or only a particular group of them need to be considered for clinical and epidemiological purposes was answered throughout this study. Using the PCR technique for the...
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