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We have used the scanning electron microscope to examine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli H10407, which expresses colonization factor antigen I pili. The use of low accelerating voltages and conductive staining procedures allowed us to obtain images of colonization factor antigen I pili and other structural details which were obscured by conventional gold-coating techniques.
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