Virulence regulation in Citrobacter rodentium: the art of timing
The mouse enteric pathogen Citrobacter rodentium, like its human counterpart, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, causes attaching and effacing lesions in the intestinal epithelium of its host. This phenotype requires virulence factors encoded by the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicit...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2010
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815369/ |