SHARING OF VIRULENCE-ASSOCIATED PROPERTIES AT THE PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC LEVELS BETWEEN ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI AND HAFNIA-ALVEI

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ALBERT, MJ [1 ]
FARUQUE, SM [1 ]
ANSARUZZAMAN, M [1 ]
ISLAM, MM [1 ]
HAIDER, K [1 ]
ALAM, K [1 ]
KABIR, I [1 ]
ROBINSBROWNE, R [1 ]
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[1] ROYAL CHILDRENS HOSP, PARKVILLE, VIC 3052, AUSTRALIA
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10.1099/00222615-37-5-310
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Seven strains of Hafnia alvei isolated from diarrhoeal stools of children resembled enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in that they produced attaching-effacing (AE) lesions in rabbit ileal loops and fluorescent actin staining in infected HEp-2 cells. In addition, a DNA probe from a chromosomal gene required by EPEC to produce AE lesions, hybridised to chromosomal DNA from all seven H. alvei strains. These findings indicate that there is a sharing of virulence-associated properties at the phenotypic and genetic levels by H. alvei and EPEC. H. alvei strains with these properties should be considered diarrhoeagenic.
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