Bovine Attaching and Effacing Escherichia Coli Possess a Pathogenesis Island Related to the LEE of the Human Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli Strain E2348/69
Goffaux, F.; Mainil, Jacques; Pirson, V.et al.
1997 • In FEMS Microbiology Letters, 154 (2), p. 415-421
[en] Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) has been described as a cause of diarrhea in calves. The molecular pathogenesis of AEEC was mainly studied in human enteropathogenic E. coli strain E2348/69 in which the virulence correlated with the presence of a 35.4 kb pathogenesis island called LEE. We showed that several strains isolated from calves with diarrhea were able to produce attaching and effacing lesions in a rabbit ileal loop model and that they possess a pathogenesis island related to the LEE. Moreover, we showed that the LEE from bovine strains was inserted mainly at a different position in the chromosome compared to the human enteropathogenic E. coli strain E2348/69.
Disciplines :
Veterinary medicine & animal health
Author, co-author :
Goffaux, F.
Mainil, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Bactériologie et pathologie des maladies bactériennes
Pirson, V.
Charlier, G.
Pohl, P.
Jacquemin, E.
China, B.
Language :
English
Title :
Bovine Attaching and Effacing Escherichia Coli Possess a Pathogenesis Island Related to the LEE of the Human Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli Strain E2348/69
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