Cuts Both Ways: Proteases Modulate Virulence of Enterohemorrhagic <italic toggle="yes">Escherichia coli</italic>

ABSTRACT Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a major cause of foodborne gastrointestinal illness. EHEC uses a specialized type III secretion system (T3SS) to form attaching and effacing lesions in the colonic epithelium and outcompete commensal gut microbiota to cause disease. A recent repo...

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Main Authors: Lauren D. Palmer, Eric P. Skaar
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/346e6c81de8f4eac9abea04b59e25ef8
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