Lactose fermenting enteroinvasive Escherichia coli from diarrhoeal cases confers enhanced virulence

Abstract Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC), known for causing bacillary dysentery akin to Shigella species, comprises both lactose-fermenting (LF) and non-lactose-fermenting (NLF) isolates. While NLF-EIEC is a well-established pathogen associated with acute dysentery and harbours classical Shig...

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Main Authors: Debjani Ghosh, Prolay Halder, Prosenjit Samanta, Goutam Chowdhury, Sreeja Shaw, Puja Bose, Deboleena Roy, Nivedita Roy, Kei Kitahara, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Hemanta Koley, Shin-ichi Miyoshi, Shanta Dutta, Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07232-x
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