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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-03-01
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Series: | Gut Pathogens |
Online Access: | http://www.gutpathogens.com/content/3/1/4 |