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SUBMITTER: Cookson AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2663222 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cookson Adrian L AL Bennett Jenny J Nicol Carolyn C Thomson-Carter Fiona F Attwood Graeme T GT
Applied and environmental microbiology 20090109 7
Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) were examined to determine the prevalence and sequence of espP, which encodes a serine protease. These analyses indicated shared espP sequence types between the two E. coli pathotypes and thus provide further insights into the evolution of aEPEC and STEC. ...[more]