Virulence profile
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Correspondence to: Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis; Email: [email protected] Tell us about your early days I was born in Athens, Greece, 50 years ago. My parents were school teachers so I lived in a small town in mainland Greece from age 2 to 12 and then the family (my parents, my twin brother, and I) moved back to Athens where I went to high school and then to University of Athens Medical School. I graduated in my mid20s and then I did my compulsory military service for 2 years as lieutenant in the medical corps. I then moved to the United States and spend 18 months as clinical post-doctoral research fellow in Houston, Texas (MD Anderson Cancer Center) before starting my internship and residency.
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ECOR phylotyping and determination of virulence genes in Escherichia coli isolates from pathological conditions of broiler chickens in poultry slaughter-houses of southeast of Iran
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