BMC Microbiology

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Characterisation of atypical enteropathogenic E. coli strains of clinical origin

Sharon M Tennant1,3, Marija Tauschek1, Kristy Azzopardi1, Andrea Bigham1, Vicki Bennett-Wood1, Elizabeth L Hartland1, Weihong Qi2,4, Thomas S Whittam2 and Roy M Robins-Browne1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria 3010, Australia

2 Microbial Evolution Laboratory, National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA

3 Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

4 Functional Genomics Center Zurich, Uni/ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190/Y32 H66, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

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BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:117 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-117

Published: 3 June 2009

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PCR primers and conditions used in this study, and sizes of PCR amplicons.

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