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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Main Authors: Yang, Ji, Tauschek, Marija, Hart, Emily, Hartland, Elizabeth L., Robins‐Browne, Roy M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815369/