Abstract
Escherichia coli (EPEC) was an important agent of diarrhea in children in the first year of life in our country for decades. EPEC causes the so called Attaching and Effacing lesion (A/E) in intestinal cells and carries the EAF plasmid (pEAF), which encodes the Bundle-Forming Pilus (BFP). BFP mediates the formation of compact microcolonies that characterize the pattern of Localized Adheren…