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. 1990 Sep;172(9):5490–5493. doi: 10.1128/jb.172.9.5490-5493.1990

The heat-stable toxin I gene from Escherichia coli 18D.

W S Dallas 1
PMCID: PMC213218  PMID: 2203756

Abstract

The heat-stable toxin I gene in the human Escherichia coli isolate 18D is the estA1 allele. The gene is not part of a composite transposon, but inspection of the flanking DNA sequences suggests that it was at one time part of a transposon. The hypothetical transposon originated from an event other than the occurrence that formed Tn1681.

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