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SUBMITTER: Nascimento HH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4100040 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nascimento Heloisa H HH Silva Lucas E P LE Souza Renata T RT Silva Neusa P NP Scaletsky Isabel C A IC
BMC microbiology 20140710
<h4>Background</h4>Biofilm formation by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) have been recently described in the prototype typical EPEC E2348/69 strain and in an atypical EPEC O55:H7 strain. In this study, we sought to evaluate biofilm formation in a collection of 126 atypical EPEC strains isolated from 92 diarrheic and 34 nondiarrheic children, belonging to different serotypes. The association of biofilm formation and adhesin-related genes were also investigated.<h4>Results</h4>Biofilm form ...[more]