Article
High mutation frequencies among Escherichia coli and Salmonella pathogens.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 15 Nov 1996
LeClerc J E, Li B, Payne W L, Cebula T A
Abstract excerpt
Here it is reported that the incidence of mutators among isolates of pathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica is high (over 1 percent). These findings counter the theory, founded on studies with laboratory-attenuated strains, that suggests mutators are rare among bacterial populations....
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Bacterial Proteins
- Biological Evolution
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Repair
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli O157
- Escherichia coli Proteins