| Literature DB >> 17559392 |
Nurmohammad Shaikh1, Nicholas J Holt, James R Johnson, Phillip I Tarr.
Abstract
Fim operons were examined to illuminate the emergence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from the less-virulent E. coli O55:H7. A fim invertible element deletion occurred only after O157:H7 descended from O55:H7, and after sorbitol nonfermenting O157 diverged. Type 1 pili nonexpression correlates with this deletion in all enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) tested. An N135K FimH mutation in the two most evolved O157:H7 clusters is not found in other EHEC. These data refine the evolutionary history of an emerging pathogen.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17559392 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00781.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Microbiol Lett ISSN: 0378-1097 Impact factor: 2.742