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Occurrence and characteristics of the cytolysin A gene in Shigella strains and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Oct 2008
von Rhein Christine, Bauer Susanne, Simon Valeska, Ludwig Albrecht
Abstract excerpt
Cytolysin A (ClyA, HlyE, SheA) is a hemolytic pore-forming toxin found in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A. In the present study, analysis of several Shigella strains revealed that they harbor only nonfunctional clyA gene copies that have been inactivated either by the integration of insertion sequence (IS) elements (Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella boydii, and Shigella sonnei...
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