The afimbrial adhesive sheath encoded by the afa-3 gene cluster of pathogenic Escherichia coli is composed of two adhesins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 683-693

  Garcia, Marie Isabelle ^a   Gounon, Pierre ^a   Courcoux, Pascale ^a   Labigne, Agnès ^a   Le Bouguénec, Chantal ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030023903     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.394935.x     Document Type: Article

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