Abstract
Bacterial virulence factors such as toxins are often encoded by bacteriophages. Among other examples, factors encoded by phages have been described in some of the emerging or re-emerging pathogens, including the pyrogenic exotoxin A production in group A streptococci (1), the cholera toxin in Vibrio cholerae (2), or enterotoxin production in enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) strains of E. coli (3).
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Muniesa, M., Jofre, J. (2004). Abundance in Sewage of Bacteriophages Infecting Escherichia coli O157:H7. In: Spencer, J.F.T., Ragout de Spencer, A.L. (eds) Public Health Microbiology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 268. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-766-1:079
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