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Sep 2026
EspO-mediated neutrophil accumulation drives lethality during Citrobacter rodentium infection in interleukin-22-deficient mice
Citrobacter rodentium (CR) is a murine-specific enteric pathogen widely used to model infections of the attaching and effacing pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Infection induces colonic epithelial damage and inflammation that are resolved in resistant mice but result in severe disease...
Vishwas Mishra, Priyanka Biswas, Z. Kozik et al.
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