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The large-sized plasmids of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 strains encode hemolysins which are presumably members of the E. coli alpha-hemolysin family.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Apr 1994
Schmidt H, Karch H, Beutin L
Abstract excerpt
Most enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains harbor a large-sized (90 kb) plasmid designated pO157 and show an enterohemolytic phenotype. In this study the hemolytic activity of E. coli O157:H7 strain EDL933 was investigated. Curing of strain EDL933 from pO157 resulted in loss of its hemolytic activity. By transformation with Tn801-tagged pO157 (pSK3), the hemolysin-negative E. coli K-12 strains C600...
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