Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Inhibits Phagocytosis
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EspJ of enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli inhibits opsono-phagocytosis
A key strategy in microbial pathogenesis is the subversion of the first line of cellular immune defences presented by professional phagocytes. Enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC respectively) remain extracellular while colonizing the gut mucosa by attaching and effacing mechanism. EPEC use the type three secretion system effector protein EspF to prevent thei...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.2.490-495.1999