Intimin Facilitates Colonization byEscherichia coliO157:H7 in Adult Ruminants

1 May 2002

journal article
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity

Vol. 70 (5) , 2704-7
https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.70.5.2704-2707.2002

Abstract

We compared the magnitude and duration of fecal shedding of wild-type Escherichia coli O157:H7 to that of an isogenic intimin mutant in young adult cattle and sheep. In both ruminant species, wild-type E. coli O157:H7 was shed in greater numbers and for a longer duration than was the intimin mutant.

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