Yersinia enterocolitica: the charisma continues.
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Yersinia enterocolitica: the charisma continues.
Yersinia enterocolitica, a gram-negative coccobacillus, comprises a heterogeneous group of bacterial strains recovered from animal and environmental reservoirs. The majority of human pathogenic strains are found among distinct serogroups (e.g. O:3, O:5,27, O:8, O:9) and contain both chromosome- and plasmid (60 to 75 kb)-mediated virulence factors that are absent in "avirulent" strains. While Y....
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical microbiology reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0893-8512
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.2.257-276.1997