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SUBMITTER: Blackburn D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2691072 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blackburn Dana D Husband Amanda A Saldaña Zeus Z Nada Rania A RA Klena John J Qadri Firdausi F Girón Jorge A JA
Journal of clinical microbiology 20090408 6
The Escherichia coli common pilus (ECP) is produced by commensal and pathogenic E. coli strains. This pilus is unrelated to any of the known colonization factors (CFs) of enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). In this study, we investigated the distribution and production of ECP among a collection of 136 human CF-positive and CF-negative ETEC strains of different geographic origins. The major pilus subunit gene, ecpA, was found in 109 (80%) of these strains, suggesting that it is widely distributed amo ...[more]