Plasmid-associated Enterotoxin Production in a Strain of Escherichia Coli Isolated from Humans

Overview

Journal Infect Immun

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1972 Apr 1

PMID 4564682

Citations 52

Authors

F J Skerman

S B Formal

S Falkow

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Abstract

A strain of Escherichia coli isolated from an epidemic of "nonspecific" diarrhea has been shown to harbor a plasmid which specifies enterotoxin production.

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