background and objectives: enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec) strains can be detected by serogrouping and the presence of enterocyte attaching- effacing (eae) gene. most epec strains belong to a certain o antigenic group. locus of enterocyte effacement (lee) pathogenicity island contains the eae gene and secretory proteins (esps) that introduce the attaching-effacing lesion. lee inserted ...

Complete minimal surfaces and constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean or hyperbolic space have been the object of much attention in recent years and particular efforts have been devoted in understanding the moduli space of such surfaces. More precisely, the surfaces we are interested in are complete, noncompact surfaces which may or may not be embedded but enjoy the somehow weaker, and sl...