Cloning and sequencing of a Shiga-like toxin type II variant from Escherichia coli strain responsible for edema disease of swine.

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Published in J Bacteriol on September 01, 1988

Authors

D L Weinstein1, M P Jackson, J E Samuel, R K Holmes, A D O'Brien

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1: Department of Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799.

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