Pathogenicity Factors of Genomic Islands in Intestinal and Extraintestinal Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm-blooded animals. The growing amount of DNA sequence information generated in the era of “genomics” has helped to increase our...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.02065/full |