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Volume 8, Number 5—May 2002
Synopsis

Typical and Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Luiz R. Trabulsi*Comments to Author , Rogéria Keller*, and Tânia A. Tardelli Gomes†
Author affiliations: *Laboratório Especial de Microbiologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil; †Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;

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Figure 1

Attaching and effacing lesion showing effacement of microvilli (mv) and pedestal (star) with adherent enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) (arrow). Reprinted from reference 2, with permission of the director of American Society of Microbiology Journals.

Figure 1. Attaching and effacing lesion showing effacement of microvilli (mv) and pedestal (star) with adherent enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) (arrow). Reprinted from reference 2, with permission of the director of American Society of Microbiology Journals.

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