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Characterization of mucosa-associated Escherichia coli strains isolated from Crohn's disease patients in Brazil.
BMC microbiology - 23 Jun 2020
Costa Rafaella F A, Ferrari Maria L A, Bringer Marie-Agnès, Darfeuille-Michaud Arlette, Martins Flaviano S, Barnich Nicolas
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BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease (CD) is characterized by chronic inflammation of the human intestine. Several studies have demonstrated that the intestinal mucosa of CD patients in Western countries is abnormally colonized by adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) strains. However, no studies to date have focused on the involvement of such E. coli strains in CD patients in Brazil. Here, we characterized E. coli...
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