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Bacillus subtilis-mediated protection from Citrobacter rodentium-associated enteric disease requires espH and functional flagella.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 2012
Jones Sara E, Knight Katherine L
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Commensals limit disease caused by invading pathogens; however, the mechanisms and genes utilized by beneficial microbes to inhibit pathogenesis are poorly understood. The attaching and effacing mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodentium associates intimately with the intestinal epithelium, and infections result in acute colitis. C. rodentium is used to model the human pathogens enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and...
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