Virulence of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 sorbitol-positive mutant.

doi:10.1128/aem.59.12.4245-4252.1993

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Virulence of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 sorbitol-positive mutant.

Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 1993

Fratamico P M, Buchanan R L, Cooke P H

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Virulence and pathogenicity of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 sorbitol-positive mutant were investigated with an infant rabbit animal model as well as a battery of in vitro assays. Total cell lysate protein profiles, outer membrane protein profiles, plasmid profiles, and levels of cytotoxic activity...

Topics

Animals
Diarrhea
Escherichia coli
Intestines
Microscopy, Electron
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Mutation
Rabbits
Sorbitol
Species Specificity

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