Citrobacter rodentium is an unstable pathogen showing evidence of significant genomic flux.

Citrobacter rodentium is a natural mouse pathogen that causes attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions. It shares a common virulence strategy with the clinically significant human A/E pathogens enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and is widely used to model this route o...

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Main Authors: Nicola K Petty, Theresa Feltwell, Derek Pickard, Simon Clare, Ana L Toribio, Maria Fookes, Kevin Roberts, Rita Monson, Satheesh Nair, Robert A Kingsley, Richard Bulgin, Siouxsie Wiles, David Goulding, Thomas Keane, Craig Corton, Nicola Lennard, David Harris, David Willey, Richard Rance, Lu Yu, Jyoti S Choudhary, Carol Churcher, Michael A Quail, Julian Parkhill, Gad Frankel, Gordon Dougan, George P C Salmond, Nicholas R Thomson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21490962/pdf/?tool=EBI