Insertion site of the locus of enterocyte effacement in enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli differs in relation to the clonal phylogeny of the strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-53

  Wieler, Lothar H ^a,b   McDaniel, Timothy K ^a,c   Whittam, Thomas S ^d   Kaper, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Evolution; Locus of enterocyte effacement; Pathogenicity island

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031278027     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00403-5     Document Type: Article

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