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SUBMITTER: Rodrigues JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203263 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rodrigues Juliana Falcão JF Lourenço Rogério Ferreira RF Maeda Denicar Lina Nascimento Fabris DLNF de Jesus Cintra Mariana M Nakao Naomi N Mathias-Santos Camila C Luiz Wilson Barros WB de Souza Ferreira Luís Carlos LC
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20200203 2
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) represents one of the most important etiological agents of diarrhea in developing countries and characteristically produces at least one of two enterotoxins: heat-labile toxin (LT) and heat-stable toxin (ST). It has been previously shown that the production and release of LT by human-derived ETEC strains are variable. Although the natural genetic polymorphisms of regulatory sequences of LT-encoding (eltAB) genes may explain the variable production of LT, t ...[more]