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From: Genetical and functional investigation of fliC genes encoding flagellar serotype H4 in wildtype strains of Escherichia coli and in a laboratory E. coli K-12 strain expressing flagellar antigen type H48

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HhaI digested fliC PCR products obtained with primers fliC-1 and fliC-2 from E. coli reference strains for 53 different expressed H-types as indicated at the right side. Similarity of restriction fragment patterns was calculated with BioNumerics software and is indicated by the dendrogram on the left side. The flagellar antigens of strains encoding H-types H3, H17, H35, H36, H44, H47, H53, H54 and H55 are not encoded by fliC but by other genes (flkA, fllA, flmA and others) in the corresponding E. coli strains and the fliC HhaI patterns obtained from these strains do therefore not correspond to their H-serotypes [21, 25, 26, 27].

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