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Citrobacter rodentium virulence in mice associates with bacterial load and the type III effector NleE.
Microbes and infection - 1 Mar 2007
Wickham Mark E, Lupp Claudia, Vázquez Alejandra, Mascarenhas Mariola, Coburn Bryan, Coombes Brian K, Karmali Mohamed A, Puente José L, Deng Wanyin, Finlay B Brett
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Severe disease caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) has been associated with a pathogenicity island, O-Island 122, which encodes the type III secretion system-effector NleE. Here we show that full virulence of the related attaching and effacing mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodent...
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