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SUBMITTER: Schlor S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC91829 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schlör S S Riedl S S Blass J J Reidl J J
Applied and environmental microbiology 20000101 1
One of the most common bacterially mediated diarrheal infections is caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains. ETEC-derived plasmids are responsible for the distribution of the genes encoding the main toxins, namely, the heat-labile and heat-stable enterotoxins. The origins and transfer modes (intra- or interplasmid) of the toxin-encoding genes have not been characterized in detail. In this study, we investigated the DNA regions located near the heat-labile enterotoxin-encoding g ...[more]