Characteristics of EPEC strains used in this study
| Strain | Origin | EPEC characteristics | References | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signal transduction | “Attaching and effacing” adhesion | ||||||
| E coli(0127:H6) | |||||||
| E2348/69 | Infant diarrhoea outbreak, UK | + | + | 12, 23 | |||
| 14.2.1(1) | Class four TnphoA insertion mutant of E2348/69 | − | − | 12, 21 | |||