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The Alleles of the bft Gene Are Distributed Differently among Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis Strains from Human Sources and Can Be Present in Double Copies

Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) strains are associated with diarrheal disease in children. These strains produce a zinc metalloprotease enterotoxin, or fragilysin, that can be detected by a cytotoxicity assay with HT-29 cells. Recently, three different isoforms or variants of the enterot...

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Main Authors: d'Abusco, Anna Scotto, Del Grosso, Maria, Censini, Stefano, Covacci, Antonello, Pantosti, Annalisa
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC86157/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10655354
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