IS3 profiling identifies the enterohaemorrhagic <it>Escherichia coli </it>O-island 62 in a distinct enteroaggregative <it>E. coli </it>lineage

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Enteroaggregative <it>Escherichia coli </it>(EAEC) are important diarrhoeal pathogens that are defined by a HEp-2 adherence assay performed in specialist laboratories. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has revealed that a...

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Main Authors: Okeke Iruka N, Macfarlane-Smith Louissa R, Fletcher Jonathan N, Snelling Anna M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-03-01
Series:Gut Pathogens
Online Access:http://www.gutpathogens.com/content/3/1/4