The Tip of the Iceberg: On the Roles of Regulatory Small RNAs in the virulence of Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli are gastrointestinal pathogens that disrupt the intestinal microvilli to form attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on infected cells and cause diarrhea. This pathomorphological trait is encoded within the pathogenicity island locus of enterocyt...

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Main Authors: Shantanu Bhatt, Marisa Egan, Valerie Jenkins, Sarah Muche, Jihad El-Fenej
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
LEE
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00105/full