Pet, an autotransporter enterotoxin from enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3155-3163

  Eslava, Carlos ^a   Navarro García, Fernando ^a,b   Czeczulin, John R ^b   Henderson, Ian R ^b   Cravioto, Alejandro ^a   Nataro, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; PET PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RABBIT; RAT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031844794     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.7.3155-3163.1998     Document Type: Article

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