Stress May Encourage E. Coli Illness
...a, works with the known previously found QseC sensor kinase (enzyme) on the ehec bacterium. QseC, discovered by Sperandio's lab about three years ago, provi...he bacterium's actions, including the regulation of the genes necessary for ehec to cause diarrhea. It appears to have a key role in other disease developme...JCI table of contents: Oct. 18, 2007
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...ful ones and the ones that make people sick communicate with one another and with their host. Shes particularly interested in the biochemical signals ehec uses to cause disease. A native of Brazil, Dr. Sperandio was named a 2004 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Global Infectious Disease Resea...