Isolation and characterization of the csa operon (etec-cs4 pili) and methods of using same

摘要

Compositions comprising products of the csa operon, an isolated nucleic acid encoding the csa operon or functional fragments thereof, purified polypeptide products of the csa operon or functional fragments thereof, methods of eliciting an immune response to these products, and methods of producing products of the csa operon are disclosed herein.