Correction: Invasiveness as a putative additional virulence mechanism of some atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains with different uncommon intimin types
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Address: 1Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, Rua Botucatu, 862, 3° andar, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 04023-062, Brazil, 2Institut für Infektiologie, Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Entzündung, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, 3E. coli Reference Laboratory (LREC), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain and 4Laboratório de Biologia Celular do Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
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