CS21 positive multidrug-resistant ETEC clinical isolates from children with diarrhea are associated with self-aggregation, and adherence.

Background: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) colonize the human intestinal mucosa using pili and non-pili colonization factors (CFs). CS21 (also designated Longus) is one of the most prevalent CFs encoded by a 14 kb lng DNA cluster located in a virulence plasmid of ETEC; yet limited informati...

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Main Authors: Juan eXicohtencatl-Cortes, Ariadnna eCruz-Córdova, Karina eEspinosa-Mazariego, Sara A. eOchoa, Zeus eSaldaña, Gerardo E. eRodea, Vicenta eCázares-Domínguez, Viridiana eRodríguez-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto Eslava Campos, Armando eNavarro-Ocaña, José eArrellano-Galindo, Rigoberto eHernández-Castro, Oscar Gilberto Gomez-Duarte, Firdausi eQadri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00709/full