Aeromonas trota strains, which agglutinate with Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal antiserum, possess a serologically distinct fimbrial colonization factor

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 309-313

  Nakasone, Noboru ^a   Iwanaga, Masaaki ^a   Yamashiro, Tetsu ^a   Nakashima, Kazutoshi ^a   Albert, M John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Atromonas trota; Colonization factor; Pili

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AEROMONAS; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; FIMBRIA; INTESTINE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RABBIT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AEROMONAS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RABBITS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS ENTEROPELOGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0030047903     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-2-309     Document Type: Article

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