Enteropathogenic strain. Escherichia coli O127:H6 str. E2348/69

Escherichia coli O127:H6 E2348/69. Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an important cause of fatal infant diarrhea. EPEC induces diarrhea by attaching and effacing to host cells in the small intestine, inducing cytoskeletal rearrangements that result in pedastel formation, and then by introducing toxins into the host cell. Important virulence functions such as the type III secretion system are encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement. Escherichia coli 0127:H6 E2348/69 is an enteropathogenic E. coli strain to be used for comparative studies with related Escherichia and Shigella species.