Disease mechanism of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Colonization of gut mucosal surfaces by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) elicits a severe persistant diarrhoea in infants and young children without elaboration of enterotoxins or tissue invasion. The formation of a distinct ultrastructural lesion involving intimate adherence to cell surface...
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University of Leicester
1990
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306378 |