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Escherichia coli
(redirected from Heat-labile enterotoxin)

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Escherichia coli
A type of enterobacterium that is responsible for most cases of severe bacterial diarrhea in the United States.
Mentioned in: Enterobacterial Infections
Escherichia coli (E. coli)
(eshrik´ē kō´lī),
n.pr a species of coliform bacteria normally present in the intestines and common in water, milk, and soil can become a pathogen at other body sites.
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Edible vaccine protects mice against Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT): potatoes expressing a synthetic LT-B gene.
Low-dose exposure and immunogenicity of transgenic maize expressing ... by Cunnick, Joan E. / Environmental Health Perspectives
coli strains from 430 patients were selected, and all were analyzed by a multiplex PCR (3) that detects the following pathogenic genes: heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins (st, lt) for ETEC, intimin (eaeA) and bundle-forming pilus (bfp) for EPEC, Shiga toxin 1 and 2 (stx1, stx2) and intimin (eaeA) for STEC, and invasion-associated loci (ia1) for EIEC.
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Identification of a gene within a pathogenicity island of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli H10407 required for maximal secretion of the heat-labile enterotoxin.
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