spp. cause hundreds of millions of intestinal infections each year. They target the mucosa of the human colon and are an important model of intracellular bacterial pathogenesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFspp. are one of the leading causes of infectious diarrheal diseases. They are pathovars that are characterized by the harboring of a large plasmid that encodes most virulence genes, including a type III secretion system (T3SS).
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