Increased adherence and expression of virulence genes in a lineage of Escherichia coli O157:H7 commonly associated with human infections.

<h4>Background</h4>Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7, a food and waterborne pathogen, can be classified into nine phylogenetically distinct lineages, as determined by single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping. One lineage (clade 8) was found to be associated with hemolyti...

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Main Authors: Galeb S Abu-Ali, Lindsey M Ouellette, Scott T Henderson, David W Lacher, James T Riordan, Thomas S Whittam, Shannon D Manning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010167&type=printable
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