Analysis of a naturally occurring K99+ enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain that fails to produce K99.

doi:10.1128/iai.62.10.4686-4689.1994

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Analysis of a naturally occurring K99+ enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain that fails to produce K99.

Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 1994

Isaacson R E, Patterson S

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A spontaneously occurring field isolate of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli that was genotypically K99+ but phenotypically K99- was analyzed for the reason that it did not express K99. The defect, which was cis active, was located within an area 5' to the first gene required for K99 biogenesis an...

Topics

Adhesins, Escherichia coli
Animals
Antigens, Surface
Bacterial Adhesion
Bacterial Toxins
Base Sequence
Chromosome Mapping
Escherichia coli
Gene Deletion
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Swine

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