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Characterization of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 O-antigen deletion mutant and effect of the deletion on bacterial persistence in the mouse intestine and colonization at the bovine terminal rectal mucosa.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2008
Sheng Haiqing, Lim Ji Youn, Watkins Maryann K, Minnich Scott A, Hovde Carolyn J
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes hemorrhagic colitis and the life-threatening hemolytic-uremic syndrome in humans and transiently colonizes healthy cattle at the terminal rectal mucosa. To investigate the role of the O antigen in persistence and colonization in the animal host, we generated an E....
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