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SUBMITTER: Melchior K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863189 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20190827 4
Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are human intestinal pathogens of clinical importance and their mechanism of pathogenicity is widely studied. However, both EHEC and EPEC poorly infect mice, whereas they do not develop important characteristics of the disease, hindering studies about mechanisms of virulence in vivo. Citrobacter rodentium exhibits high similarity of its genes with these human pathogens, including the island of pathogenicity Locus of Enterocyte ...[more]