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Allelic types of long polar fimbriae in bovine and human Escherichia coli O157 strains.
Acta veterinaria Hungarica - 1 Mar 2012
Sváb Domonkos, Tóth István
Abstract excerpt
Long polar fimbriae (Lpf) are recently discovered adhesins and increasingly important genetic markers of pathogenic Escherichia coli strains. The presence and genotype diversity of Lpf operons was screened in a collection of 97 Escherichia coli O157 strains representing different pathotypes, isolated from healthy cattle (n = 43) and human patients (n = 54) in several countries. Individual structural genes of Lpf...
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