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Genetic diversity of locus of enterocyte effacement genes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from Peruvian children.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Aug 2012
Contreras C A, Ochoa T J, Ruiz J, Lacher D W, Durand D, DebRoy C, Lanata C F, Cleary T G
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and allele associations of locus of enterocyte effacement encoded esp and tir genes among 181 enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains (90 diarrhoea-associated and 91 controls) isolated from Peruvian children under 18 months of age. We analysed espA, espB, espD and tir alleles by PCR-RFLP. EPEC strains were isolated with higher frequency from healthy...
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