Presence of different O antigen forms in three isolates of one clone of Escherichia coli.

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Presence of different O antigen forms in three isolates of one clone of Escherichia coli.

Genetics - 1 Sept 1994

Liu D, Reeves P R

Abstract excerpt

Escherichia coli strains ECOR2, ECOR3 and K-12 are very closely related in genotype as indicated by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. We show that they have very different rfb regions indicating that recombination has occurred in this region, and we suggest that it may be associated with niche a...

Topics

Antigens, Bacterial
Cloning, Molecular
DNA, Bacterial
Escherichia coli
Genes, Bacterial
Genetic Variation
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
O Antigens
Polymorphism, Genetic
Polysaccharides, Bacterial
Recombination, Genetic
Restriction Mapping

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