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In vitro and in vivo pathogenicity of Salmonella enteritidis clinical strains isolated from North America.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Nov 2011
Shah Devendra H, Zhou Xiaohui, Addwebi Tarek, Davis Margaret A, Call Douglas R
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Salmonella enteritidis is a leading cause of food-borne gastroenteritis worldwide. In this study, 48 strains of S. enteritidis isolated from clinical cases of salmonellosis in North America were tested for their virulence-associated traits including cell invasiveness, biofilm, motility, presence of a virulence plasmid, and virulence in orally challenged mice. The majority of strains exhibited high invasiveness (n...
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