ATTACHING AND EFFACING ACTIVITIES OF RABBIT AND HUMAN ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI IN PIG AND RABBIT INTESTINES
ATTACHING AND EFFACING ACTIVITIES OF RABBIT AND HUMAN ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI IN PIG AND RABBIT INTESTINES
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.41.3.1340-1351.1983
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
GIANNELLA, RA
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作者:
MOON, HW;WHIPP, SC;GIANNELLA, RA
Three strains of enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), originally isolated from humans and previously shown to cause diarrhea in human volunteers by unknown mechanisms, and 1 rabbit EPEC strain attached intimately to an effaced microvilli and cytoplasm from intestinal epithelial cells in the pig and rabbit intestine. The attaching and effacing activities of these EPEC were demonstrable by light microscopic examination of routine histological sections and by transmission electron microscopy. Intact colostrum-deprived newborn pigs and ligated intestinal loops in pigs and rabbits may be useful systems to detect EPEC that have attaching and effacing activities and for studying the pathogenesis of such infections. The lesions (attachment and effacement) produced by EPEC in these systems were multifocal, with considerable animal-to-animal variation in response to the same strain of EPEC. The EPEC strains also varied in the frequency and extent of lesion production. Three human EPEC strains usually caused extensive lesions in rabbit intestinal loops; 2 other human EPEC strains usually did not produce lesions in this system.