Milk Fat Globules Hamper Adhesion of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli to Enterocytes: In Vitro and in Vivo Evidence
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC; E. coli) are food-borne agents associated with gastroenteritis, enterocolitis, bloody diarrhea and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). Bovine milk glycans have been shown to contain oligosaccharides which are similar to host epithelial cell receptors and ca...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00947/full |