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The complete sequence of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli E2348/69
1 Apr 1998
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are an important aetiological agent in infant diarrhoea and the prototype for a family of pathogens exhibiting the unique virulence mechanism known as attaching and effacing (AE) (Nataro and Kaper, 1998). All genes necessary for AE are encoded on a 35 kb chromosomal pathogenicity island called the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), which contains genes encoding a type...
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